Kurtis Johnson
Staff Engineer at Simpli.fi
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKurtis Johnson is a Principal Engineer based in Austin with over a decade of experience designing and operating high-speed, real-time distributed systems. He has led architecture and technical strategy for ad-tech infrastructure at Simpli.fi, migrating monoliths to resilient, containerized and orchestrated services while replacing brittle cron workflows with observable Airflow pipelines. Kurtis built and scaled mission-critical C++ and Elixir services that handle millions of requests per second across global datacenters and drove the transition from bare metal to Terraform-provisioned virtual infrastructure. Earlier work at Raytheon includes multi-threaded 10Gb implementations of reliable multicast and leadership of cross-disciplinary teams integrating software with custom hardware and FPGAs. He combines deep low-level performance engineering with pragmatic operational improvements and a strong coaching mindset, mentoring staff engineers and influencing engineering standards. Outside typical resumes, he repeatedly delivers zero-downtime migrations and production reliability gains that materially reduced operational risk.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, 3.6, Master of Science, Computer Science, 3.6 at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (58)
actionscript10
csharp10
java9
parser9
http9
thrift9
dom9
sax9
parser-generator9
api9
maxmind9
network-server9
idl9
aho-corasick9
dart9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kurt-nj/prezto
Mar 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:17 pushes in 4 years 3 months
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
simplifi/kafka_docker
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
docker-compose wrapper to bring up kafka and wait for topic creation
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 18 commits in 10 months
golangwaitdockercomposedocker-compose
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