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Alex Johnson - Co-Creator and Software Engineer in San Francisco, CA

Alex Johnson

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in observability and developer tools

LightFootLaunch SchoolSan Francisco, CA4 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Product-leaning full-stack engineer (65% product / 35% infra) who built core components of the LightFoot feature flag platform: end-to-end client/server SDKs with OpenTelemetry-based observability and a React+TypeScript UI for flag management and metrics dashboards. Strong focus on performance (memoization/lazy loading/caching), reliable API design, and Postgres modeling for read-heavy flag evaluation workloads, with AWS production experience (EC2/ECS/Lambda/API Gateway/VPC).

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Key Strengths

  • Shipped end-to-end client and server SDKs for a feature flag platform
  • Refactored browser telemetry integration using OpenTelemetry and a custom SpanProcessor
  • Built customer-facing feature flag management UI and metrics dashboards (React + TypeScript)
  • Performance optimization in UI (memoization, lazy loading) and SDK (caching)
  • Designs reliable backend APIs with clear auth/versioning/error handling and strong testing/observability practices
  • Designed and iterated a normalized PostgreSQL schema for flag evaluation (Flag/Context/Rule) with indexing and caching for read-heavy workloads
  • AWS production experience across EC2/ECS/Lambda/VPC/API Gateway with autoscaling and load balancers

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Experience

Co-Creator and Software EngineerLightFoot · Jan 2025 – Present
Software Engineer, Open-Source ProjectsMozilla · Jan 2022 – Present
Coding InstructortheCoderSchool · Jan 2022 – Jan 2025

Education

Launch Schoolbootcamp, Software Engineering (2025)
North Carolina State Universitybachelor, Environmental Science (2020)

Languages

English

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Alex JohnsonMid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in observability and developer tools