Stephen Johnston
Founder at PubWise
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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RockstarStephen Johnston is a founder and product-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building digital media and ad tech businesses from Atlanta. He founded PubWise, Launch Media Network, Gamer Launch and GameSkinny, blending entrepreneurial leadership with hands-on front-end and analytics engineering. A significant part of his open-source footprint includes contributing analytics and bid adapters to the widely used Prebid.js project, improving UTM tracking, debugging and multi-format media support. He pairs practical ad tech integrations with a product mindset, able to move quickly between code, analytics and go-to-market execution. Notably, he combines publisher revenue optimization expertise with developer-first tooling experience, making him fluent in both business and technical tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
testing10
javascript10
adaptor10
header-bidding10
web-analytics10
integrations10
analytics10
adapter10
prebid10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
prebid/Prebid.js
May 2017 - Oct 2022
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 31 reviews, 22 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the Prebid.js project by implementing and updating analytics adapters, specifically focusing on integrating the PubWise analytics service. Their work involved creating new analytics adapter files, writing tests, and modifying existing files to enable configuration options, UTM tracking, and debugging features. They also integrated the vdo.ai and PubWise bid adapters, adding support for various media types, and fixing issues. These contributions enhanced the project's ability to integrate with different analytics and advertising platforms.
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PubWise/Prebid.js
Apr 2017 - Dec 2024
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Contributions:33 PRs, 325 pushes, 108 branches in 7 years 8 months
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