Scott Johnston
Owner at Vectaport
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolScott Johnston is an experienced engineer and founder with over three decades of hands-on practice designing scalable asynchronous systems from silicon to cloud, now leading Vectaport in San Carlos. He blends hardware-level expertise in Verilog and asynchronous logic with modern Go and C++ backend development, specializing in flow-based, locally coordinated real-time data and interactive spatial decision systems. A tenacious debugger and architect, Scott has a track record of replacing global-clock designs for many-core fabrics, bootstrapping voltage-scalable IoT logic, and resolving subtle concurrency issues in goroutine-heavy services. Pragmatic and product-focused, he pairs deep low-level intuition with user-facing UI and imaging work, reflecting a career that repeatedly crosses boundaries between hardware, firmware, and distributed software.
11 years of coding experience
41 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (22)
concurrent10
non-blocking10
dataflow10
go-framework10
graphic10
goroutine10
go10
backpressure10
flow-based-programming10
golang10
scalable10
asynchronous9
ruby9
linux9
x119
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vectaport/fgbase_test
Mar 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:184 commits, 4 PRs, 171 pushes in 3 years 8 months
vectaport/flowgraph
Aug 2018 - Apr 2021
Flowgraph package for scalable asynchronous system development
Contributions:205 commits, 178 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
asynchronousdataflowscalabledistributed
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