Johnny Sheeley
Senior Manager, Data Solutions & Initiatives
California, United States
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Top SchoolJohnny Sheeley is a product-minded engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building high-performance teams and shipping business-critical cloud platforms at scale, currently leading Data Solutions & Initiatives at Apple. He combines hands-on technical chops—contributing to open-source tooling like the Obsidian Dataview plugin—with a track record of operational rigor, having cut AWS spend by millions while maintaining 99.99% SLAs. Johnny scales organizations and systems alike, growing teams from single engineers to global organizations and introducing languages and frameworks (e.g., Go) that now power hundreds of services. Known for turning rapid prototypes into sustained production value, he blends product focus, developer empathy, and cost-conscious architecture to solve complex problems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electronic Media Art and Communication, B.S. Electronic Media Art and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (13)
typescript10
typescripts10
query-language10
obsidian10
typescript-types10
plugin10
rollupjs8
javascript8
ui-design7
react7
jersey6
jackson6
java6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
A data index and query language over Markdown files, for https://obsidian.md/.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Johnny contributed significantly to the Obsidian Dataview plugin, primarily focusing on feature enhancements and bug fixes within the Typescript codebase. They implemented hot-reloading for faster development cycles, enabling immediate updates to the plugin during development. They also worked on parsing and integrating date information from tasks, as well as adding task support and inline annotations. Further work involved enhancing the UI with task link features.
queryindexquery-languageobsidian-mdperformance
sheeley/note-setup
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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