Michael Johns
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Johns is a software engineer with a decade of experience building large, scalable distributed systems, currently engineering at Google after earlier work at Bloomberg. He brings deep C/C++ and UNIX expertise, strong grounding in data structures, algorithms, and multi-threaded programming, and practical familiarity with Java, Fortran, JavaScript, and shell scripting. Michael’s background reflects both low-level systems discipline and production-grade system design, enabling robust, high-performance solutions in demanding environments. Based in New York, he pairs academic foundations from Swarthmore with hands-on development of distributed services at major technology companies. Notable is his sustained focus on scalability and reliability over many years, suggesting strength in optimizing real-world systems rather than prototype-level work. He combines meticulous engineering rigor with the adaptability to work across languages and layers of the stack.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Swarthmore CollegeGithub contributions (4)
michaeljohns/lyrics-lab
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:69 commits, 50 pushes in 23 days
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