Johnny Goodnow
Engineering Manager at Airtable
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohnny Goodnow is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling teams and products across startups and enterprise SaaS, currently managing Scaled Experiences and Sync & Integrations at Airtable. He rose through hands-on engineering roles at Tonic.ai—helping architect core algorithms like multi-database subsetting and later running the entire engineering organization as Director—balancing technical depth with organizational strategy. Johnny excels at translating product roadmaps into measurable OKRs, leading re-orgs and tool migrations, and coaching managers to improve team performance and delivery. His background spans developer relations and platform work at Stellar and Asana, giving him a strong appreciation for API design, documentation, and community building. An active open-source contributor, he improved Python Stellar client docs and core validation logic, showing attention to both developer experience and correctness. Based in San Francisco, he’s motivated by enabling teams to ship ambitious, privacy-focused features that drive real user value.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science (B.S) Computer Science, Computer Science (B.S) Computer Science at Virginia Tech
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
python10
api-design10
documentation10
blockchain9
sdk9
horizon9
testing8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
StellarCN/py-stellar-base
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Stellar client library for the Python language
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Technical Writer
Backend Developer & Technical WriterContributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Johnny primarily focused on enhancing the project's documentation by adding comprehensive API documentation for key classes like `Asset`, `Memo`, and `Transaction`. They also contributed to the core functionality by addressing checksum validation issues. Furthermore, the user worked on incorporating the required code from various examples to establish the ability to interact with the Horizon API.
horizonpythonclient-libraryblockchainsdk
theaeolianmachine/docs
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Stellar documentation
Contributions:33 pushes, 41 branches in 6 months
stellarblockchain
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