Ken Johnson
Software Engineer at CoStar Group
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Johnson is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience blending hands-on development and quality assurance across SaaS and legacy systems, currently shipping features at CoStar Group. He progressed from customer-facing support and repairs into QA leadership at Visual Lease, building automated and manual testing practices that bridged product and engineering teams. Comfortable manipulating SQL and networking for migrations and troubleshooting, Ken brings a strong operational lens to software reliability and data integrity. His background in frontline tech support and retail management sharpened his customer empathy and metrics-driven coaching style, helping teams prioritize high-impact fixes. Based in New Jersey, he holds a BS in Computer Software Engineering from Western Governors University and is known for turning customer issues into durable product improvements.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering at Western Governors UniversityGeneral Education, Computer Science, General Education, Computer Science at Ocean County College
Github Skills (36)
game-engine10
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2d-game10
visual-studio10
engine10
cpp10
game-development10
2d10
conan9
package-management9
cpp-library9
linux9
cmake9
windows9
macos8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
capnkenny/capnkenny.github.io
Apr 2020 - Aug 2025
A blog of my navigation through the treacherous seas of code...
Contributions:8 PRs, 16 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 4 months
treacherousseasnavigation
novelrt/NovelRT.Sdk
Feb 2022 - May 2022
The NovelRT SDK software and framework, used for creating and deploying NovelRT projects.
Contributions:12 reviews, 27 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
deployingsdk
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