Wells Johnston
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at B25 Capital
Delray Beach, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolWells Johnston is a software engineer-turned-founder with 15 years of experience building and scaling low-latency distributed systems and high-performance engineering teams. He led trading technology and market data platforms at Kraken that supported over $1B in daily volume and helped ship products used by more than 100M people during earlier roles at Spotify and a VR startup. As first employee and Head of Data & Analytics at Littlstar he built industry-standard 360° video viewership tools and a web VR player, blending data-driven product design with backend and cloud infrastructure expertise. Now co-founder and Managing Partner at quantitative prop firm B25 Capital, he combines hands-on systems engineering with quantitative trading ops. Based in Delray Beach, he pairs deep technical fluency in distributed systems with a knack for turning analytics and infrastructure into durable, production-grade products.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Mathematics Double Major, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Mathematics Double Major at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (200)
ripgrep10
aws-services10
plugin-development10
bash10
fuzzy10
vim10
fuzzy-finder10
meter10
macos-application10
command-line-tool10
serverless10
concurrency10
swiftui10
lambda-functions10
javascript10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wellsjo/literoom
Jun 2013 - Dec 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
cryptowatch/proto
Jun 2018 - Oct 2021
Protobuf definitions for the Cryptowatch Websocket API
Contributions:4 releases, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 4 months
rpcapiprotobufgrpcwebsocket
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