Eddie Johnston Email & Phone Number

Ireland

Lead Frontend Developer at Clearword, an AI agent that transcribes and summarizes meetings.

San Francisco Bay Area (Remote)

Second Engineer, sixth hire at Reforge. Reforge was bootstrapped and grew to 8 figures ARR before raising a $20M round from Andreessen Horowitz in February 2021 followed by a $60m Series B.

Greater Pittsburgh Area (Remote)

Senior Developer on LUMA Workplace, www.lumaworkplace.com, a leading Human Centered Design educational application. Acquired by Mural in 2022.See LUMA on the Harvard Business Review - https://hbr.org/2014/01/a-taxonomy-of-innovation

San Antonio, Texas (Remote)

Returned to TrueAbility between jobs to implement the interview software for Google's Mobile and Android Developer Certifications programs.

Los Angeles, California (Remote)

Remote Full Stack Developer at 17hats. First Rails developer, helped grow the Rails team to 7 people. Tasked with porting a very large application (300k lines of code) from Perl to Rails / React.

San Antonio, Texas (Remote)

Full-stack Developer with TrueAbility.com, a platform that facilitates live technical assessments. Developed the core Rails application and API that programatically deployed and maintained thousands of Linux server instances used for assessments by clients that include Docker, Mailchimp and Rackspace. Technology Stack: Rails, Go, Python. TrueAbility was acquired by Aluminum, Inc.

Independent Developer trading as Beanstalk.ie, worked with a range of clients from small startups to large organisations including the BBC.

Dublin

Technical Co-founder at Lokofoto Ltd, a marketplace for landscape photographers. Raised €50,000 seed. Completed iGAP, a development programme for high potential internet/games companies.

Part-time Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Design and School of Business and Social Sciences, delivering the courses 'Business Innovation through Technology' and 'Principles of Web Design'.

Dublin

Main roles were with the Irish Revenue (IRS) as a C Programmer (developed a new system for the daily transfer of millions of euro in tax payments between taxpayer and Revenue bank accounts), and with the Procurement department of Ireland’s largest bank (analyzed hundreds of thousands transactions to identify areas of overspending and reduce costs).

Delivered the module 'An Introduction to Unix, Lex and Yacc' for three years for the Department of Computer Science and acted as a Teaching Assistant for a number of other Computer Science degree modules over the span of a PhD programme:Object Oriented Programming, 2004-2007 Discrete Maths, 2005-2007 Software Engineering, 2004-2006 Introduction to Programming, 2000-2004 Unix Operating System, 2002-2003 Web Multimedia, 2004-2005

Phd, Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence)

Activities and Societies: Diving Instructor with Sub Aqua Club, Captain of Caving and Potholing Club PhD Thesis titled “A Reinforcement.

Bsc, Computer Science

Graduated with Honors in Computer Science.