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 company. • 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 on the order of millions of dollars per month during Better's growth to a top-20 mortgage company. • 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