Michael Johnston
Engineering Cron at Notion
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Johnston is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years building high-performance mobile and web experiences, currently contributing to Cron within Notion's engineering organization in Mountain View. He brings deep expertise in iOS, graphics, UI design and front-end performance from roles at Flipboard and Yahoo!, where he led web teams and shipped foundational mobile-web rendering libraries and HTML5 publishing engines. As a former co-founder of a stealth startup, he blends product-minded tinkering with pragmatic engineering, often focusing on the intersection of mobile and web technologies. Known for driving performant rendering and polished user interfaces, he combines hands-on implementation with design sensibility rooted in computer science and mathematics.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Mathematics at St.Edward's University
Github Skills (37)
javascript10
electron10
rendering10
windows10
typescript10
linux10
react-component10
webpack10
package10
macos10
react-native9
react-components9
ios9
react-native-app9
android9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mjohnston/react-native
Apr 2015 - Dec 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 9 months
react-nativenative-appsreactredux
cron-hq/darkreader
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Dark Reader Chrome and Firefox extension
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
firefoxchromefirefox-extensiondark-themefirefox-addon
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