Josh Johnson
Group Design Engineering Manager, Spectrum at Adobe
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Johnson is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 28 years of experience and more than a decade managing teams across mobile, desktop, web, and design engineering. Currently a Group Design Engineering Manager at Adobe Spectrum, he blends deep hands-on expertise in Objective-C, C/C++, and TypeScript with a strong eye for UI and motion through Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere. His background spans consumer apps (Grubhub, Highrise), platform and design systems, and native-to-cross-platform integrations, including C++ core libraries bridging to Swift/Kotlin. Known for reorganizing teams to own core product surfaces, he improves performance and usability while enabling faster shipping via reusable frameworks. Based in Durham, NC, Josh pairs product-focused leadership with a practical engineering pedigree rooted in AutoCAD automation and embedded tooling. An avid creative technologist, he balances engineering rigor with a filmmaker’s sense for polished user experiences.
16 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Bowling Green State University-Firelands
English, German, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
hugo-theme10
hugo10
css10
weblog10
spectrum10
adobe10
web-components9
alertview7
swift6
health6
rating5
cocoa5
static-site-generator5
ios5
region4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jnjosh/jnjosh.com
Feb 2016 - Dec 2022
@jnjosh's internet weblog
Contributions:275 commits, 1 PR, 319 pushes in 6 years 11 months
weblog
jnjosh/jnjosh.social
Jan 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2420 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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