Andrew Johnston

Senior Software Engineer @Knak

Ottawa, ON, CA

Improved memory management and allocation in our job queue by observing containers in AWS ECS, reading the queue framework implementation code and tuning our configuration• Built experience selector integration leveraging Adobe Gen Studio Micro Frontend to import Adobe generative AI content• Worked with dozens of engineers across three companies to build full end-to-end import and export flow for generative AI content using Adobe App Builder and embedded selector• Designed and implemented new endpoints for our public API to support merge tag management, empowering our customers to automate variable replacement in their email workflows• Added support for HTML import and export flow for new Adobe Marketo email editor improving our integrations support for our customers• Built robust validation UI and backend for CSV imports to improve data quality, data ingestion from other platforms, and customer experience• Refactored PHP analytics event architecture to be both testable and strongly typed to improve code quality as we expanded our product analytics to gain more insights into user experience• Expanded our app preferences to allow more granular permissions using MySQL DB migrations and PHP• Created configuration and first tests for Component level Vue tests with Vitest and TypeScript to improve quality and reliability of a new application• Active in the frontend, backend, and e2e test automations guilds and refactored unit test setup to have reusable mocks and improve our code maintainability• Added analytics events to improve our observability and drive product innovation• Consistently improved developer experience, for example by fixing PHPUnit configuration and adding Docker restart policies

Queen's University

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computing and Communications Engineering

Queen's University

Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.), Applied Mathematics