# Lucy Johnston

> Remote Software Engineer at Ancestry

Location: Provo, Utah, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lucyjohnston

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Ancestry
Jan 2024 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer @ Ancestry
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Software Engineer @ Epic
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ The Climate Corporation
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Build, Tools, and Release Team
- Developed an internal React tool that assesses experiment compliance of more than 5,000 agricultural fields. I set up routing with React Router, organized data management through React Contexts, and incorporated maps into the tool using Leaflet JS.
- Received an offer to continue on the team throughout the school year.

### Computer Volunteer Coordinator (Spanish) @ United Way of Utah County
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Provo, UT
- Organized weekly free computer help lab for Spanish-speaking community members
- Recruited and trained other volunteers

### Software Engineering Intern @ Ancestry
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Lehi, UT
- Entrusted with Ancestry’s inaugural effort to show cropped image previews within search results. Collaborated across five teams to make it happen.
- Launched a NodeJS stack to streamline collaboration with marketing by facilitating the placement of internal promotions on the search pages
 that serves internal promotions to the search pages
- Learned React to help transition legacy pages 
- Only sophomore chosen as intern in 2019, received return offer

### Software Engineering Intern @ Lucid
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | South Jordan
- Built components of site using AngularJS and Angular 5 (and gained proficiency with HTML, CSS, LESS, JavaScript, and TypeScript)
- Queried Redshift database using Scala and SQL
- Implemented more than 20 A/B tests with automated end-to-end and unit testing around the payment pages, loading page, and home page
- Worked in a scrum team using Kanban in two-week sprint cycles
- Built a feature similar to LinkedIn’s progress bar which encourages users to perform new actions in the product and shows their current progress on the home page
- Youngest summer intern in 2018, received return offer


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computational and Applied Mathematics
Brigham Young University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ljohnston931

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Last updated: 2026-03-29