Tyler Johnston
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States
Summary
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SeniorTyler Johnston is a self-taught Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and architecting web platforms from startup tools to enterprise systems. Currently at GitHub, he has a strong background in Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, TypeScript, and React, and has repeatedly led refactors and migrations from legacy Rails apps to modern, type-safe front ends. He’s skilled at mentoring teams and designing APIs and testing/CI practices, having led engineering organizations and product teams as well as hands-on feature development. Notably, his career spans both low-level operational work—Dockerized CI/CD, geospatial data pipelines, HIPAA integrations—and high-level architecture, giving him a rare full-stack perspective grounded in practical delivery.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (44)
github-issues9
ember-cli9
command-line-utility9
relay9
graphql8
github8
compile8
rails8
ruby8
expressions8
javascript7
ember7
graphql-ruby7
rubymotion4
laravel4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ambethia/twaxdotcom
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:61 commits in 2 days
fulcrumapp/atacama
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
DRYer than a desert
Contributions:43 commits, 38 pushes, 10 tags in 1 month
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