Chris Johnson
Lead Platform Engineer Runtime Team
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolChris Johnson is a Lead Platform Engineer on Heroku’s Runtime team with 14 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and developer-focused tooling. He specializes in Go-based infrastructure, containers, orchestration (Kubernetes, etcd), and has deep prior experience with OpenStack, Cloud Foundry and PaaS implementations. Chris has contributed to open-source projects and integrations—most notably fixes and feature work on the Heroku provider for HashiCorp’s widely used Terraform—alongside libraries like fog, pgstore and stolon. He has led backend and CI/CD efforts, built scalable REST APIs and containerized services, and packaged platform components for multi-cloud deployment. Based in Greenville, SC, he’s been successfully remote for nearly 20 years, bringing disciplined time management and consistent delivery. He pairs hands-on engineering with a focus on developer experience and platform resilience.
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)
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api-design10
testing10
terraform10
terraformer10
go10
api10
infrastructure-as-code10
automationtesting9
automation9
automations9
cloud-infrastructure8
cloud-computing8
html6
internet-explorer6
Programming languages (11)
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.
versionedconfiguration-filescloud-managementawscloud
wchrisjohnson/hendersonbooks
Sep 2011 - Dec 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 3 years 4 months
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