# Lars Johnson > Software Engineer at Airtable Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/larsjohnson I'm a Software Engineer at Airtable helping democratize software creation. Previously, I worked at Dropbox on the Paper and Filesystem teams. Cheerful helper; engaged leader; oboist and pianist; outdoor enthusiast; board game fan; covid-era cook. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Airtable Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Teams I've worked on: Interface Designer, AI Solutions, Extensibility, Application Lifecycle Management, App Sandbox, Organized Workflows, Interoperability, Agent Tools Platform ### Software Engineer @ Dropbox Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States Product Platform Software Engineer, Filesystem; Tech Lead, Services - Led technical execution and direction for groups of 3-10 engineers building and maintaining the high-availability backend Go services that keep track of what user content lives in Dropbox and who has access to it. - Shipped new key-value datastore and authentication functionality in the critical path of product feature launches. - Built, deployed, and optimized a system to delete billions of unneeded database revisions per day, meaningfully impacting storage costs and capacity projections - Implemented and released 10+ service RPCs in a new tree snapshot model, simplifying the filesystem interface for product teams and unlocking future data layer improvements - Investigated and resolved high-urgency incidents via a 24/7 on-call rotation. Introduced dashboards, tools, and process changes to improve on-call effectiveness. - Led onboarding efforts to successfully integrate nine new members to our team in Fall 2021 ### Software Engineer @ Dropbox Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 Full Stack Software Engineer, Dropbox Paper; Tech Lead, Collaboration and Identity - Led technical execution and direction for groups of 3-8 engineers building Dropbox's collaborative docs product. - Integrated Paper docs into the main Dropbox filesystem to unify sharing and organization models. - Built a notifications sender system and in-product notification panel UI to support bundling, delays, and delivery via multiple methods. Introduced digests and share reminders, increasing product engagement. - Shipped new product features involving comments, image annotations, tasks, insert toolbars, and shortcuts. - Expanded permissions model flexibility and ensured quality as one of the team's core security reviewers. - Improved the reliability of systems that sync account data and respond to team membership changes. - Presented recurring onboarding talks. Developed dashboards and admin tools to improve on-call effectiveness. - Mentored an intern in 2016; Managed Dropbox's intern program in 2017. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA 6.945 Large-Scale Symbolic Systems / Advanced Symbolic Programming with Gerald Jay Sussman ### Software Engineering Intern @ Dropbox Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA - Improved internationalization infrastructure efforts as part of a two-member engineering team. - Shipped basis for future rtl language support; Built initial framework for a cross-platform i18n library. ### 6.01 Lab Assistant, Advanced Lab Assitant, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ MIT Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, Massachusetts - Guided undergraduate students in weekly software and design labs for 6.01 Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for 4 semesters - Received a 2013 EECS Undergraduate Teaching Award recognizing my effectiveness ### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Cambridge, Massachusetts music21: Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology: - Published and presented paper, “Interoperable Digital Musicology Research via music21 Web Applications” at the Service-Oriented Architecture Workshop of the Digital Humanities Conference, Hamburg, Germany, Jul. 2012. - Expanding the project’s goal of enabling computational inquiry and manipulation of symbolic music. - Built a flexible service-oriented architecture to enable development of web applications, - Developing a modular web-based system to check and “pre-grade” student music theory assignments. - Attended Boston Music Hack Day 2011, built basic music21 web apps and presented to an audience of 150. - Presented music21 web apps at the New England Music Cognition Conference at Yale University, April 2012. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Google Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, CA - Built an interactive dataflow graph visual debugging tool for a proprietary query language used in Ads Backend. ### Mobile Development Intern @ Thomson Reuters Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Eagan, MN - Contributed to the agile development team for the Proview Legal eReader - iOS App - Developed new annotation and table view features, prototyped and investigated feasibility of future features - Created an interactive corporate data visualization app with Dan Bennett, VP of Mobile Technology, presented the project to lead editors of reuters.com for possible inclusion on the site. ### Website Designer and Developer @ Eagan High School National Honor Society Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Eagan, Minnesota - Built a sustainable PHP/MySQL website to manage service requirements of the 280-member organization. - Implemented a student log-in system and a user-friendly front-end admin interface. Website averaged over 100 unique logins per week and remained in active use until 2019 ### Programmer, Developer, Designer @ Various Computer/Programming Projects Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Eagan, Minnesota - Built a Flash brainstorming tool used while leading our Boy Scout Troop’s annual planning meeting, - Developed a live scoring website used for the “lightning round” of 2010 MN State Math Tournament., - Created many interactive presentations, websites, Flash games, and 3D modeling, graphics, video projects. ## Education ### Masters of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### High School Diploma Eagan High School ### Mathematics University of Minnesota Talented Youth Mathematics Program ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lrsjohnson - Portfolio: https://larsj.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/larsjohnson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/larsjohnson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11