Rob Johnston
Distinguished Technologist at Vortex Studios, LLC
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRob Johnston is a Distinguished Technologist with 13+ years of hands-on engineering experience and a long track record of building infrastructure-grade software for networking, mobile, and web. He spent over 15 years shaping Junos as a Distinguished Engineer—creating features like configuration DB optimizations and the original J-Web—then moved into strategic platform work at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded multiple startups including End of Time Studios (creator of the successful Forum Runner app) and Vortex Studios, and continues to run a regional community forum hosted on AWS. His technical breadth spans systems programming in C/C++ and Java, modern mobile stacks, web technologies, databases, and low-level debugging/profiling tools. Comfortable operating across product, operations, and cloud-hosted infrastructure, he blends deep protocol and OS knowledge with practical product delivery. Based in Ashburn, VA, he pairs infrastructure-scale thinking with the instincts of a developer-founder who ships polished consumer and enterprise software.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Clemson University
English
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Github Skills (18)
dialect10
xslt9
perl9
nested6
attribute6
dynamic6
json6
programming-language6
yang5
user-interface5
modeling-tool4
converter4
linux4
python3
odin3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Juniper/lighttpd-for-juise
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1 release, 8 pushes, 1 tag in 3 months
Juniper/clira-windows-installer
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:8 pushes in 3 months
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