Johnny Metz
Lead Platform Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnny Metz is a Lead Platform Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of full‑stack experience building scalable, observable backend systems and polished frontends. He has led end-to-end platform work—designing APIs, managing PostgreSQL performance and replicas, and implementing SAML SSO—while augmenting observability across Datadog, New Relic, Sumo Logic and PagerDuty to centralize monitoring and alerting. At PixieBrix he built a Pinecone-backed vector search for enhanced text retrieval and maintains comprehensive test suites (Pytest, Cypress, Locust) to ensure reliability under load. Previously he led and mentored engineering teams at Invitae and delivered cloud-native services on Kubernetes, serverless GraphQL APIs on AWS Lambda, and data-driven reporting tools. Comfortable across Django/DRF, React, Redis and multi-cloud environments, he pairs hands-on engineering with practical leadership and a background that started in chemical engineering—bringing systems thinking to software architecture.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoHigh School, HS Diploma, High School, HS Diploma at San Ramon Valley High School
English
Github Skills (200)
web-application10
hugo-theme10
python10
pagination10
bulma10
django10
webapp10
browser-extension10
djoser10
materialize10
celery10
chrome-extension10
datatables10
semantic10
pre-commit-hook10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
johnnymetz/notifier-app
Feb 2023 - Jul 2024
Send yourself daily email notifications.
Contributions:4 reviews, 79 PRs, 131 pushes in 1 year 4 months
johnnymetz/famous-athletes
Oct 2019 - Nov 2023
Generate a random famous athlete for trivia!
Contributions:10 reviews, 110 PRs, 120 pushes in 4 years 2 months
linterjavascriptnodejspython3famous-athletes
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