Chris Johnson
Lead Platform Engineer Runtime Team
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChris Johnson is a Lead Platform Engineer with 15 years of experience building cloud-native runtimes and PaaS platforms, currently shaping the core runtime at Heroku. He blends deep systems and DevOps expertise—particularly with Go, Kubernetes, etcd, and container tooling—with a long history in OpenStack, Cloud Foundry and Postgres-backed services. Chris has shipped production-grade APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments across AWS, OpenStack and on-prem environments, and contributed bug fixes and provider enhancements to the high-profile Terraform ecosystem. A remote-work veteran of nearly two decades, he pairs strong time-management and cross-team collaboration skills with hands-on engineering discipline. Beyond core infrastructure, he has an entrepreneurial background co-founding SaaS products and a track record of upstream open-source contributions to libraries like fog and pgstore.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computing-Business, Computer Science, BA, Computing-Business, Computer Science at Furman University
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Github Skills (22)
apim10
api-design10
testing10
terraform10
terraformer10
go10
api10
infrastructure-as-code10
automation-testing9
automation9
automations9
cloud-infrastructure8
cloud-computing8
html6
activerecord6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 46 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Heroku provider within the Terraform repository. Their work involved fixing bugs related to SSL certificate updates and ensuring tests for the Heroku provider functioned correctly, demonstrating debugging and testing skills. They also enabled CRUD operations for metrics, adding functionality for managing metrics within the Librato provider and updating API endpoints. This work included both code modifications and test case adjustments, suggesting a focus on feature development and testing within the Terraform ecosystem.
terraformgraphinfrastructure-as-codecloudcloud-management
wchrisjohnson/hendersonbooks
Sep 2011 - Dec 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 3 years 4 months
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