Brian Johnston Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, California, United States

I support the Spark Perception Capabilities (AR) org which builds person and world-facing trackers and exposes them to 1P and 3P developers and technical creators. Examples include hand tracking, body tracking, plane tracking, gesture tracking, segmentation, depth detection, and many others.

Dallas, Texas, United States

Led software engineering teams responsible for public-facing commerce and services platform.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Recruited to manage complete scope of revenue and customer-facing systems for both brick-and-mortar and online/digital environments, supporting all omnichannel initiatives. Lead teams of engineers, testers, product owners, and program managers, reporting directly to the CIO. Led the instrumentation and monitoring of all critical systems in the field. - Championed 100% automation of principal systems and 50% automation of the testing environment. - Spearheaded conversion across 80% of in-store systems from Windows to Linux – drove down call volume 90% and reduced software licensing cost 65%. - Transformed engineering team and culture into a unified team – attaining 600% jump in productivity with a 50% reduction in staff size. - Introduced 1st DevOps function resulting in a modernized deployment capability, as well as a comprehensive hardware/software monitoring and alerting solution. - Overhauled key systems from unwieldly client-server applications to modern webservice/browser applications

Irvine, Ca

Headed a software engineering organization of 70+ across the build and support of Blizzard Cloud and the global data platform. Cultivated high-performing team rallied around innovation, business objectives, and technological impact.- Supported the continued evolution of a nascent OpenStack implementation – building IaaS and SaaS capabilities to service the needs of game and software platform teams.- Designed and launched Blizzard’s first auto-scaling capability for a premier title in production – delivering $1M in annual cloud hosting cost savings. - Supported a sophisticated data platform that managed 7+ PB of data across a variety of technologies, including Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, Elastic Search, and numerous middle-ware solutions.- Implemented Hashicorp Vault as a critical piece of infrastructure and application security.- Oversaw the virtualization of all game titles to run in the OpenStack private cloud – forging a path for flavor-based capacity management and optimization of resource utilization.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Managed comprehensive engineering and technology function, including infrastructure, security, operations, software development, and testing. Led team of 60+ while supporting multiple technology platforms driving over $1B in annual revenue. Directed business partnerships, vendor management, and stakeholder engagement for both B2B and B2C business models. - Deployed an agile environment – defining the processes for product and engineering teams to engage with the business in a more agile way. - Drove end-to-end development of the B2B website, which now handles $400M+ in annual revenue and supports hundreds of vendors and customers. - Defined the benchmark for top-talent recruitment and hiring – applauded by HR and recruitment teams. - Re-platformed B2C e-commerce from monolith to modern microservices ecosystem supporting multiple applications, including websites, mobile apps (shop and endless-aisle), and business tools, including a CMS and a catalog management app.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Promoted to lead a high-performing team of 30+ across the complete scope of e-commerce engineering. Influenced long- and short-term strategic planning while managing the entire software development lifecycle.- Fueled transition from closed-source proprietary technologies to modern, open-source solutions, enhancing visibility, agility, and overall feature support. - Overhauled software development lifecycle to better incorporate improved tools, agile methodologies, and efficient collaborative partnerships. - Transformed team and culture into a high-growth technology group focused on aggressive business objectives.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Promoted to lead a core team of 6 in the core development of the e-commerce platform.

One of a handful of developers responsible for the support and development of the Under Armour eCommerce platform. Maintain a significant role in the development of the architecture and the supporting subsystems; majority of time spent developing and implementing technical strategies that allow the framework to scale out, as well as implementing new functionality as required by various business teams. Primary technologies used include ColdFusion/Java, Adobe Flex, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Memcached, Endeca, MongoDB