Will Johnson
Senior Software Engineer at DDN Storage
Melbourne, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping distributed systems and storage software, currently focused on Lustre development at DDN Storage. His background spans full-stack work—from PHP and JavaScript front ends at Disney to microservices and systemd-activated Node.js services at Intel—paired with strong functional programming experience using F#. He’s proven at improving code quality and testability, having introduced ML-style typing and robust unit testing practices that reduced defects and boosted confidence. Will combines hands-on systems work (Vagrant, CentOS/RHEL clusters, systemd, sockets) with practical DevOps and CI automation, informed by early roles building game pipelines and tooling. Based in Melbourne, Florida, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset that favors small, reviewable changes and repeatable deployments across complex storage environments.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Engineering, Bachelors Computer Engineering at University of South Florida
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
whamcloud/GUI
Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
Realtime Graphical User Interface
Contributions:7 releases, 62 commits, 89 PRs in 2 years 4 months
graphicalrealtimeuser-interfacegraphical-user-interface
whamcloud/flow-highland
May 2017 - Oct 2018
flow type files for highland.js
Contributions:3 releases, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 6 months
highland
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