Nicholas Johnston
Green Infrastructure Specialist at Vantage Agriculture
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Johnston is a Green Infrastructure Specialist and software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable full-stack solutions and practical living roof systems across Vancouver. He combines field expertise—planning, installing, and maintaining green roofs for major sites like UBC and St. Paul’s Hospital—with software delivery experience in data streaming, Flutter apps, and cloud-integrated backends that improved operational efficiency at GFL. As founder of an ag‑tech startup, he’s marrying agentic automation and real-time analytics to cut water use and operational costs for growers, reflecting a consistent focus on sustainable, impact-driven technology. Comfortable switching between rooftop plant health and production debugging, he brings a rare blend of ecological knowledge, pragmatic software engineering, and a curiosity-driven mindset rooted in interdisciplinary training from UBC, BCIT, and Cornell.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Certificate Software Development in Python, Certificate Software Development in Python at Cornell UniversityApplication Development Program JavaScript React React Native Redux, Application Development Program JavaScript React React Native Redux at RED AcademyBachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy at The University of British Columbia
English, French
Github Skills (28)
react9
material-ui8
react-components7
javascript7
material-design6
typescript6
mui5
jsonp5
api3
fetch3
flutter3
testing3
redux2
building-blocks2
generator2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nejohnston/portfolio
Jan 2021 - Mar 2025
My portfolio website
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 3 months
javascriptreact
nejohnston/R10
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:146 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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