Kent Johnson
Self Employed
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKent Johnson is a retired principal software engineer with 14 years of focused experience architecting and building imaging and scientific applications using C#, C++, Python and Java. He led development of medical and scanning systems at companies including Cambridge Research, Caliper, PerkinElmer and Akoya, introducing agile practices, unit testing, CI, code review and DVCS into legacy teams. Comfortable across desktop, embedded and web stacks, he also applies statistics, R and bioinformatics knowledge to image analysis and instrumentation workflows. Earlier work ranges from high-performance scanner firmware and electronics to large-scale content and e-learning systems, showing deep hands-on expertise from hardware interfaces to server-side design. Based in Cambridge, MA, he now consults/retired while maintaining a strong practical grounding in modern development practices and experimentation with machine learning methods. An uncommon strength is his long track record of modernizing teams and toolchains while remaining a primary architect and developer.
13 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Math, BA, Math at Amherst CollegeBioinformatics Certificate, Bioinformatics Certificate at University of Illinois at ChicagoMS candidate, Computer Science, MS candidate, Computer Science at Rivier College
Github Skills (163)
spatial10
bookdown10
r10
htmlwidgets10
r-package10
csv-parser10
gis10
javascript9
testthat9
shiny9
csv9
statistic9
static-html9
leaflet9
proj9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kent37/Maptime-Mapping-with-R
Sep 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
kent37/kjutil
Oct 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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