Samuel Johnson
Senior Software Consultant at Self-employed
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Johnson is a Senior Software Consultant and SRE with 14 years’ experience building and scaling production-grade systems across startups and large organizations. He has driven reliability and performance at scale—helping Trello reach one million concurrent users and maintain four nines uptime—while also leading backend initiatives at Autify and founding product-focused teams at Freedom.to and ZEROPAY. Now based in Tokyo, he combines hands-on expertise in backend architecture, containerization, and operational tooling with entrepreneurial instincts for turning small teams into scalable businesses. Studying Japanese while consulting, he brings an unusual blend of global engineering experience, product leadership, and cultural adaptability to cross-border tech challenges.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Colorado College
Github Skills (63)
mongodb10
mysql9
mariadb9
postgresql9
query-builder9
prisma9
cockroachdb9
javascript9
typescript9
sqlite9
mssql9
orm9
nodejs9
sql-server9
database9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aapope/TerrainGeneration
Nov 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:41 commits in 14 days
sjohnson540/moccasin
Jan 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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