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.
15 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 (174)
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fuzzy-finder10
macos-application10
elasticsearch10
serverless10
concurrency10
lambda-functions10
javascript10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
wellsjo/literoom
Jun 2013 - Dec 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
wellsjo/console.save
Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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