Aaron Johnson
Director of Engineering @ Dropbox | Building AI-powered productivity tools | Team scaling, platform reliability, PostgreSQL & distributed systems
- Role
- Operator at Lightspeed
- Location
- Portland, OR, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Aaron Johnson
20+ years of software engineering, engineering management, and product management. Leadership of both small and large teams ranging from 20 person startups to multi-billion dollar publicly traded companies across a variety of industries. Passionate about building great software and great teams. Highly detailed software engineer and leader with a knack for solving tough problems, the ability to communicate both in code, in person, in writing, and in large public forums and the desire to create software that people actually want to use.Specialties:* Leadership and management of small to large software development and product management teams* Agile software development, validation and release* Hiring great people and aligning their skills and ambition with business needs* The entire web application stack from DNS to HTTPS to Apache to middleware to cloud to storage* Large scale internet and wireless services with high availability
Experience
Operator
Oct 2022 — Present
Lightspeed’s Program for Community Experts, made up of experienced company builders with functional expertise across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Growth, Sales, and Finance.
Education
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
n/a, Computer Science
2004 — 2005
Biola University
BS, Business
1995 — 1998
Skills
- Maven
- Start-Ups
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Java
- Ruby
- Software as a Service (Saas)
- Rest
- Scalability
- E-Commerce
- Software Engineering
- Representational State Transfer (Rest)
- Web Services
- Saas
- Cloud Computing
- Git
- Spring Framework
- Agile Methodologies
- Mobile Applications
- N-Tier
- Subversion
- Enterprise Software
- Distributed Systems
- Open Source
- Web Applications
- Javascript
- Linux
- Hadoop
- Apache
- Postgresql
- Perl
- Junit
- Spring
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