# Andrew Johnston

> Staff Software Engineer at Theorycraft Games

Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewjohnston

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Theorycraft Games
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Engineering for the backend platform services, gameserver infrastructure, Unreal game client, player facing web portals, data pipelines, gameplay prototypes, and more for SUPERVIVE.

Go, C++, Unreal Engine, React, MySQL, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes, Agones, Terraform

### Senior Software Engineer @ Theorycraft Games
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer @ Bridgewater Associates
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Riot Games
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
- Technical lead for a team building Go and Java backend services that provide microservices, game platforms, and game servers serving 100+ million players every month with operational capabilities such as service discovery, dynamic configuration, telemetry, alerting, and more in datacenters around the globe.
- Led development and adoption of a React/Redux web application used to view and manage microservices running on Riot's container platform (rCluster) used by hundreds of engineers and operators across Riot.

Go, Typescript, Java, React/Redux, Angular, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Ehcache, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Chef, Consul, Vault

### Software Engineer @ Riot Games
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Associate Software Engineer @ Riot Games
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Software Engineering Intern @ University of Kentucky
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Lexington, Kentucky


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Kentucky
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ajjohnston224

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Source: https://flows.cv/andrewjohnston
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Last updated: 2026-03-22