Sam-nicolai Johnston
Staff Developer at SSENSE
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSam-nicolai Johnston is a Staff Developer based in Montreal with nine years of professional experience and a seven-year track record of architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems. At SSENSE he has progressed from junior roles to leading company-wide initiatives to revamp order, inventory, and warehouse systems across new fulfillment centers, blending product thinking with cross-team technical leadership. He has hands-on full‑stack experience (including React Native retail apps) and has led small teams as a technical cofounder, showing both startup agility and enterprise execution. His background in automated production engineering and early research in embedded facial recognition reflect a strong foundation in systems, ML experimentation, and practical engineering trade-offs. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational needs into robust architecture and to drive complex integrations across operations domains.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Sciences pures et appliquées, Sciences pures et appliquées at Collège de MaisonneuveAutomated Production Engineering, Industrial Engineering, 3.97 out of 4.3, Automated Production Engineering, Industrial Engineering, 3.97 out of 4.3 at Université du Québec - Ecole de Technologie supérieure
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (64)
image-processing10
react-native-component10
redux10
computer-vision10
testing9
editor9
react-native9
scrollview9
microsoft9
electron9
javascript9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
opencv9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sam-n-johnston/underactuated-robotics
Dec 2019 - Feb 2021
Underactuated Robotics MIT 6.824 course
Contributions:12 PRs, 132 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 2 months
robotics-simulationroboticsmitgazebosim
sam-n-johnston/serverless-offline-step-functions
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Serverless Offline Plugin to Support Step Functions for Local Development
Contributions:8 PRs, 35 pushes, 16 branches in 1 month
local-developmentserverlessoffline-pluginserverless-offlineserverless-offline-plugin
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