Alan Johnson Email & Phone Number

Pitching in wherever needed at an pre-launch startup building trading software in Rust, TypeScript, Python, and AWS.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Executive role. Led team of up to 27 analytics engineers, data managers and product managers, developing data pipeline, enterprise reporting platform, and business intelligence function for a full-stack insurance.
• Architect of evolution of our “Modern Data Stack” data platform, built with BigQuery, dbt, Fivetran and Qlik.
• Planned and implemented organizational designs and service models to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the company, supporting all growth and insurance operations functions.
• Member of the corporate Leadership Council, driving strategy and policy for the 400-500 person company.

New York, NY, US

• Led team of 25 engineers developing Better.com’s core mortgage lending logic. (Engineering Manager from Oct '19 – Oct '21; Senior Engineering Manager from Oct '21 – June '22)
• Led effort to complete in-house loan origination system, unlocking significant improvements in scale, unit economics, cycle times, borrower satisfaction, quality control, compliance, and new product development. Impact.
• Led team responsible for all aspects of mortgage workflow, including pricing, eligibility, borrower credit, rate locking, property data collection, underwriting, closing, compliance, funding, and investor delivery.
• Architected framework for automated selection of optimal underwriting process for a loan scenario.
• Maintainer of 1 out of 4 modules of engineer interview process; grew team from 30 to nearly 400 engineers.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

• Managed team of 4 engineers developing Arena’s machine learning systems.
• Developed features in OCaml and.NET for improving Arena’s retention prediction product.
• Contributed to architecture and go-to-market strategy for a new talent sourcing product.

New York, US

• Managed team of 6 engineers developing Artsy’s auction systems and clients.
• Architected real-time auction engine in Scala+Akka on PostgreSQL, integrated with Ruby-based core platform.
• Architected customer and back-office web & mobile applications allowing online bidders to buy $100k+ artworks from offline auction house sales, built in React+Redux, Swift, WebSockets, and GraphQL.

New York City, NY, US

• Head of desktop and mobile web rendering for an Alexa US Top-30 website.
• Architected internationalized, multitenant content rendering engine for HuffPost.com, built in Scala+Play.
• Architect of tech stack for Highline long-form journalism project, using Rails and Middleman.
• Principle front-end developer of HuffPost.com comments system, built as an embedded Backbone app.

New York, New York, US

Web development consultant, and senior client team member.

• Led business and technological strategy of Breakrs, a gamified social network for music discovery.
• Created strategic plan for Breakrs vision, as well as technological roadmap.
• Developed entirety of Breakrs web application and internal IT infrastructure.
• Designed algorithms controlling game mechanics.

New York, NY, US

• Developed applications based on departmental music information retrieval research.
• Invented a vector search technique, using supervised machine learning and hierarchical K-means clustering, for learning the structure of extremely large datasets.
• Developed a web application using D3 for exploring “Internet-scale” music collections (>10M tracks).

US

• Developed products for mood-based music listening.
• Principal developer and design contributor for iOS application for mood-based music player.
• Developer for server-side PHP and SQL code for creating playlists from a central audio track library.

Baltimore, MD, US

• Served as founding high school math teacher at ninth and tenth grade levels.
• Assisted in rewriting of district Algebra I curriculum, implemented at approximately 40 high schools.
• Built and maintained master class schedule for 100 tenth-grade students.
• Assisted in coaching junior varsity boys’ basketball team.

New York, NY, US

Served as a member of a highly selective service corps of college graduates who commit to teach two years in under-resourced public schools, while developing leadership skills applicable to a wide range of careers after the commitment.

Lexington, Kentucky, US

C and C++ development for printer firmware and test software.(Four separate three-month internships)

Dublin, Ireland, IE

Developed internal applications for manufacturing process control and data collection.(Two separate three-month internships)

B.S., Computer Engineering

M.Music, Music Technology (Pending Thesis Defense)

Maryland Teaching Certificate, Secondary Math

M.Eng., Electrical Engineering

Computer Science