Christopher Johnston Email & Phone Number

Elmira, ON, CA

Canada

• Leading Technical Coaching program to level up engineers in SOLID principles, refactoring, clean code
• Architected AWS event-driven, serverless pipeline for moving video through ML models
• Created React app for configuring above pipeline to process video from new sources

Toronto, Canada Area

• Introduced Unit Testing best practices, TDD
• Facilitated book club to help level up dev team
• Lead team to develop email consent infrastructure to lower mail costs

Toronto

• Mentored developers and helped define the development culture
• Helped developers, QA deliver the highest quality software possible

Mountain View

• Worked directly with lead designer to solve usability problems
• Liaised between designers and developers to ensure consistency and quality
• Introduced team ownership of projects to remove silos

Sunnyvale, California

• Mentoring developers in Rails, Object-Oriented design & development
• Member of UI design team modernizing customer dashboard
• Introduced modern architectural patterns to upgrade legacy Ruby on Rails application

Palo Alto, California

• Worked directly with customer to visualize, implement email based statistic report
• Anchored several difficult development efforts to a successful conclusion with clients
• Created highly optimized Rails ReST application for Android mobile client

Toronto, Canada

• Introduced 40+ students/cohort to Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Testing
• Streamlined curriculum to better teach students web development
• Mentored students to facilitate learning and hiring possibilities

Toronto, Canada

• Taught dev team aspects of Agile including User Stories
• Paired with developers to introduce TDD, improve code quality
• Refined Agile development processes, shortening development cycle time by up to 4 weeks
• Evolved QA policies, practices (Exploratory Testing), managed QA team

Toronto, Canada

• Introduced Agile principles by coaching the development team, senior management

Worked to enhance and extend their customer management system built using Ruby on Rails.

• Utilized user-centered design, paper prototyping to modernize image keywording application

Toronto, Canada

Worked to create centralized data management system for meteorological scientific data using Java 5 and Oracle. Introduced the Spring Framework to development team.

Diploma, Commercial Photography

Diploma, Photography

Ux Full-Time Diploma, Ux/Ui

This is a 3 month diploma program introducing students to the fundamentals of user experience and interface design.

Bsc, Computer Science, Co-Op