Kurtis Johnson
Principal 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
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (47)
actionscript10
http10
csharp10
thrift9
network-server9
dart9
aho-corasick8
maxmind8
dom8
thread-safety8
base648
base327
base64url7
json-parser7
algorithm7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kurt-nj/prezto
Mar 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:17 pushes in 4 years 3 months
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
kurt-nj/corsicana
Jan 2019 - Mar 2020
Fast and thread safe C++11 implementation of of the Aho-Corasick algorithm.
Contributions:4 releases, 62 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 1 month
aho-corasickthread-safety
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