Ian Johnson     enjalot@gmail.com     510-365-9427     Portfolio    GitHub    LinkedIn

Work Experience

Chief Data Alchemist     Latent Interfaces
Dec. 2022 – Present

• Developing the open-source Latent Scope tool
• Building cutting edge data curation systems for industry leading research teams.

Senior Data Visualization Developer     ObservableHQ
Jul. 2020 – Nov. 2022

• Developed features for simplifying complex data workflows.
• Taught data visualization to thousands of data practitioners.
• Built open source community and examples for d3.js and Observable Plot.

Senior UX Engineer     Google
Jul. 2016 – Jun. 2020

• Developed data-driven tools supporting 300+ person design team.
• Open-sourced 50 million Quick, Draw drawings with the Creative Lab
• Co-authored 4 publications on Distill.

Design Technologist     Freelance
Jul. 2015 – Jul. 2016

• Developed open source developer tool Block Builder via a successful Kickstarter campaign.
• Working on a variety of custom data visualization and app development projects for clients.

Data Alchemist     Lever
Jul. 2012 – Jul. 2015

• First hire, founding software engineer.
• Designed and built the original data infrastructure
• Designed and built reporting features used by largest customers
• Built internal tools still in use when acquired for $500m in 2022

Software Engineer     Visual.ly
Aug. 2011 – Jun. 2012

• Prototyped a variety of data visualization tools.

Summer Student Intern     Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Aug. 2009 – Aug. 2011

• Distributed GPU computing with OpenCL and MPI for particle advection for Computational Fluid Dynamics visualizations.

GIS Web Programmer     Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center
Oct. 2003 – Aug. 2009

• Designed and implemented geospatial data tools.

Education

Florida State University
2011 M.A. Computational Science
2009 B.S. Applied Mathematics, B.A. Chinese Language