John Johnson
Co-Founder at Glider.fi
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Johnson is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building high‑volume web3 and fintech products from first principles. He co-founded multiple startups including Glider.fi and Smol Studios, and as founding engineer at Matcha/0x helped grow trading volumes from zero to over $1B/month. He blends hands‑on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the 0x-api token registry and API integrations—with product leadership across consumer DeFi, structured products, and exchanges. Previously he led frontend platform efforts at Textio and built critical payroll engines at Ultimate Software, giving him rare domain depth across AI UIs and complex financial systems. Based in San Francisco, he prefers rolling up his sleeves in early‑stage builds and black‑box skunkworks, and his GitHub bio “currently: vibing” hints at a pragmatic, unpretentious approach to shipping impactful technology.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Oviedo High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida
English
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
api10
apidoc10
data-integration9
ethereum9
nodejs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
0xProject/0x-api
Dec 2019 - Aug 2020
An HTTP Interface to 0x liquidity and tooling
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 13 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the API's token registry and made code adjustments to existing API endpoints. Their work involved adding new tokens, including Compound, UMA, BZRX, renBTC, BAL, LEND, YFI, AMPL, KEEP, mUSD, bUSD, and PAX, to the API's metadata. They also fixed a typo and updated token addresses. The contributions demonstrate expertise in back-end API design, data management, and integration of new token data.
ethereumliquiditytooling
ActionableAgile/trello-to-analytics
Dec 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year
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