About Me

Experienced Application Architect, software engineer, and AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate in enterprise, consulting, and startup contexts.

I love building clean, performant, and accessible apps. I enjoy mentoring passionate developers and teams who want to grow.

GitHub: https://github.com/WilliamJohnsonJr

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamtjohnsonjr/

Certifications:

Udacity Nanodegrees:

• SQL - cert link: https://www.udacity.com/certificate/e/1987495c-d2a6-11ee-be66-6303cccaeec9

Play my zombie killer game (Desktop browser only). Code repo here.

Skills

• Cloud Architecture Skills:
  • AWS:
    • AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
    • CloudFormation, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), eksctl
• UI Skills:
  • TypeScript
  • Vue, Vuetify, & Pinia (& VueX for Vue 2)
  • React 16+ (with hooks & Context) & Redux
  • Angular & NgRx (note: you might not need NgRx.)
  • WCAG 2.x compliant UI code and Semantic HTML5, SCSS/SASS/CSS, Responsive Design
  • Build Tools (vite, webpack, gulp, etc.)
• Backend Skills:
  • I helped build this customer-facing API at Truework.
  • SQL
  • NestJS & NodeJS,
  • Python, Django, Flask, Alembic, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL
  • Auth0 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
  • API Documentation (also with OpenAPI 3.0 and Swagger)
  • unittest, pyenv, pip, Postman, & Postman Collections
• DevOps Skills:
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker & Docker Compose
  • Optimizely feature flags
  • CI/CD pipeline creation with automated unit tests, E2E, and code coverage
• Testing:
  • Unit Testing (Vitest/Jest is my favorite, but I've also used Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, & Chai)
  • Integration and E2E Testing with Cypress

Principles (MEAPS)

• Maintainable (cleanly written and tested, SOLID design, Go4 patterns, and basic tests are a minimum)
• Ethical and Good for the World
• Accessible
• Performant
• Secure