# Johnny B. > Senior Software Engineer & Fullstack Developer Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/johnnyb Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of full-stack experience leading architecture, system design, and cross-functional initiatives. Proven success in driving technical strategy, scaling distributed systems, mentoring teams, and delivering measurable business impact. Expert in modern web development (React, NextJS, Node, Python, AWS, DynamoDB) with strong focus on cost optimization, developer experience, and engineering culture. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Furniture.com Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States Drove architecture and delivery of core platform features including Find-It AI Search, Similar Items service, and NextJS migration. Led project team of 4 engineers; delivered frontend migration to NextJS and cloud infrastructure go-live 1 month ahead of schedule. Architected and delivered ETL pipelines (TypeScript, Python) ingesting 25K–4M+ daily product records, enabling onboarding of 15+ partners in year one. Designed and deployed Similar Items API leveraging weighted similarity algorithms to provide recommendations across 5M+ products, improving customer product discovery. Built backend for AI-powered search feature integrating NLP prompts with generative image models to surface visually similar products, driving engagement and retention. Built User Accounts service including Social Identity Provider (IdP) integration, secure PII handling, and transactional communications (4+ email scenarios), scaling to thousands of users. Served as technical lead for several major projects, owned refinement meetings, backend architecture, and mentoring junior engineers while partnering with product leadership. Created load-testing suite for API services benchmarking performance under high traffic and reporting to senior leadership, ensuring services remained performant at scale. Established observability standards by delivering an internal logger package, defining log schemas, and creating SEO metrics logger—reducing incident resolution times and improving visibility. Implemented and maintained AWS API Gateway solution using Terraform/Terragrunt, providing a unified entry point for all backend services. Directed AWS Bot Control adoption after presenting cost analysis to leadership, cutting malicious traffic and reducing third-party API costs. Worked with DevOps on infrastructure and DevOps strategy for Product team, leveraging Terraform/Terragrunt to deliver AWS resources and solutions aligned with business goals. ### Senior Software Engineer @ WarnerMedia Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States Led development of Aerial Ad Monetization Platform supporting $4.5B in WarnerMedia ad revenue, architecting enterprise applications for critical ad-spot inventory planning and management. Owned UI/UX strategy as React SME, introducing SOLID and functional patterns, influencing design decisions with stakeholders, and establishing best practices for scalable frontends. Architected and delivered Digital Ad Sales Platform, a micro-frontend web app (Gatsby, React, GraphQL, WebSockets) that became the central suite of tools for ad sales execution. Directed TypeScript migration across 9+ React/Node codebases, refactoring high-traffic services to improve maintainability, reliability, and developer productivity within one year. Optimized Node.js backend services, reducing CPU usage and cross-service calls while cutting AWS operational costs consistently. Managed high-volume MongoDB clusters (100GB+ data), implementing automated integrity checks and processes to maintain accuracy for mission-critical sales data. Modernized enterprise frontends (React v15 → v16), replacing deprecated lifecycles with hooks, decoupling legacy components, upgrading Redux, and improving overall system performance. Mentored engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions, improving team collaboration and establishing a culture of consistent design practices. ### Senior Software Engineer @ CareerBuilder Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area Owned development of Apply Platform and Quick Apply microservices (Node.js, AWS), supporting 150K–250K+ job applications daily with high availability and scalability. Designed and launched industry’s first One-Click-Apply via email, enabling candidates to instantly apply to 5–20 recommended jobs, significantly improving conversion and user engagement. Led redesign and refactor of 3 mission-critical codebases (AWS SQS queue manager, backend Node.js client, and Quick Apply service), improving reliability and maintainability. Migrated Apply Platform frontend from Angular 1.5 to React 16, introducing functional programming methodologies and GraphQL APIs to modernize the stack. Optimized backend services and database queries, cutting DB calls during applicant submission by 50% and reducing parsing failures and outages. Implemented and managed AWS infrastructure (Route 53, S3, load balancers, Auto Scaling Groups), ensuring scalable, fault-tolerant application delivery. Enhanced observability with DataDog and New Relic, improving monitoring of API calls and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) for production issues. Recognized with 2019 CareerBuilder Innovation Award for impactful contributions and product innovation. ### Course Instructor @ Trilogy Education Services Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Atlanta, GA - Georgia Tech Led instructional team of 5 (co-instructor + 4 TAs) delivering a 7-month, 30-student bootcamp on full-stack JavaScript and modern web development. Taught fundamentals of software engineering including programming principles (OOP, functional), HTML5, CSS3, asynchronous JavaScript, Node.js, Express, and SQL database design. Developed and delivered hands-on curriculum with lectures, whiteboarding, coding exercises, and live demos, improving student comprehension and project outcomes. Introduced professional practices such as UI/UX design principles, Git workflows, and REST API consumption to prepare students for real-world engineering roles. Mentored students individually, providing technical guidance and career coaching, contributing to high job placement and graduation success rates. ### Lead Front End Developer @ Legendary Tech Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Atlanta, GA Led a team of 4 developers delivering web apps and sites for national clients, supporting multi-million-dollar annual revenues. Modernized legacy applications, including migrating Brookwood Loans app to React and leading Angular 1.x → Angular 2 migration for Loan Max/Title Max, improving maintainability and scalability. Owned product and SEO strategy for 7+ client sites, collaborating with business stakeholders and legal teams to implement rapid UX/UI changes, often within same-day turnaround. Improved site performance by 60% through asynchronous loaders, caching, image optimization, and API refactoring; validated improvements with Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, and WebPageTest. Defined information architecture and delivered UX/UI assets, balancing technical and design responsibilities to accelerate project delivery. ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Accenture Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Greater Atlanta Area Lead Project Manager for Unix to Linux umbrella-project, a multi million dollar effort to completely revamp and upgrade a Client’s backend and servers for Nationwide vendor usage. Led several Development and Testing teams, each consisting of up to 15 members. Initiated, tracked, and monitored equipment and spending requests, handling over $1.8 mil in requests. Developed release schedules, managed and tracked rollouts, and oversaw testing for hundreds of Java-based Linux servers. Leveraged Client and Business contacts to help establish internal, and external, Tech Support and Troubleshooting groups for project and software rollouts. Served as part of a UI Team tasked with redesigning client’s North American website using company style guide. Built out Front-End of the redesigned UI using a HTML, CSS, Bootstrap 3, ReactJS, ExpressJS, and Angular tech stack. Designed low to high fidelity mockups, wireframes, and functional prototypes for project proposals and development teams for proprietary client apps. Used frameworks such as Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, ReactJS, etc., as well as Adobe Suite products such as Muse, Photoshop, and Fireworks. Used a hybrid of Agile & Scrum software development methodologies, as well incorporating the client’s native software development life cycle approach. ### Consultant - Analytics @ Booz Allen Hamilton Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Used contacts from Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta to create and update my team’s relationship-contact map across the Federal Reserve Bank 12 bank system. Supported 40 project proposal efforts by conducting research, contributing technical writing, and reformatting project proposals and qualifications. Designed and created the Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) instruction manual for the Cognos Business Intelligence system. Worked as part of a six person IRS Project Management Operation team which handled the IRS $90 million TIPSS-4 contract. Coordinated badge application requests from thousands of BAH employees and outside contractors. Initiated, submitted, and tracked all TIPSS-4 Task Order 16 security clearance requests. Managed and updated the Contractor Tracking Tool (CTT) which held information on all contractors, past and present, who worked on the TIPSS-4 or TIPSS-3 contract. ### Economic Research Analyst - Intern @ Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Chosen as one of 22 students to participate in the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Internship Program. Provided insight on data analysis of regional economic factors in weekly research department meetings. Analyzed reports and data on hundreds of small businesses within regional network to generate potential economic growth forecasts for senior researchers. Led the initiative in utilizing a new economic reporting database, dubbed Relavis, which streamlined access to several thousand research and analysis reports. Led the project to revamp the Local Economic Analysis and Research Network (LEARN) with updated information on regional economic indicators, established contacts, and new potential contacts in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Tennessee. ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics Morehouse College Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/johnny-boston --- Source: https://flows.cv/johnnyb JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/johnnyb/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22