Johanna Cherry
About Johanna Cherry
Johanna Cherry is a Staff Data Engineer at The Muse with extensive experience in data engineering and software development, having previously worked at companies such as Akamai Technologies, Songkick.com, and Hailo.
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Johanna Cherry currently holds the position of Staff Data Engineer at The Muse, based in New York, New York, United States. She began her tenure at The Muse in 2016. Previously, she served as a Golang Engineer - Contract at Akamai Technologies, working in the San Francisco Bay Area for three months in 2017.
Previous Work Experience
Johanna Cherry has extensive experience in various technical and leadership roles. From 2015 to 2021, she was the Director at GopherCon UK in London, United Kingdom. She served as Platform Architect at Songkick.com for one year from 2014 to 2015 and as Data Team Lead at Hailo from 2012 to 2014. She also held the Development Manager position at Webgains from 2010 to 2012 and was Technical Team Lead at Ibuildings from 2008 to 2010. Additionally, she worked as an Application Developer for Bee IT and as an Implementation Developer for Netconcepts in 2008. From 2009 to 2021, Johanna also directed the PHP UK Conference and PHP London user group.
Educational Background
Johanna Cherry achieved a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Information Systems & Technology Management from Herzing University, where she studied from 2003 to 2007. This educational background laid a strong foundation for her technical expertise and career in data engineering and software development.
Key Contributions at The Muse
At The Muse, Johanna Cherry collaborated closely with the product development team to incorporate data into new features, enhancing user personalization. She optimized Python APIs to reduce p90 timing from 1450ms to 87ms by identifying long-running functions using ddtrace. She also designed and implemented continuous integration and monitoring for the dbt data warehouse, ensuring high data quality.
Open Source Contributions
Johanna Cherry is the owner and maintainer of Attendize, a free and open-source web application for event management and ticketing. Her work on Attendize highlights her commitment to open-source projects and her proficiency in web application development.
Technical Innovations
Johanna Cherry has led several notable technical projects. She built new batch email systems using Elasticsearch and SendGrid API, significantly increasing scalability to facilitate product growth. Additionally, she developed a new testing environment in Redshift that safely shares data from production, enabling robust and effective testing of new data models using limited disk space.