Brooks Johnson
About Brooks Johnson
Brooks Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer at Virta Health with extensive experience in data engineering and performance tuning.
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Brooks Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer currently working at Virta Health. He began his role at Virta Health in 2021 and is based in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Work Experience at Virta Health
Brooks Johnson has been working at Virta Health as a Senior Software Engineer since 2021. His work focuses on performance tuning and highly parallel ETL development while utilizing a wide range of cloud platforms and data engineering tools. He continues to contribute his extensive skill set to support Virta Health's data initiatives.
Previous Experience as Senior Data Engineer
Before joining Virta Health, Brooks Johnson worked at various companies as a Senior Data Engineer. He spent time at Donuts Inc. from 2020 to 2021, at Carta from 2019 to 2020, and at Facebook from 2016 to 2018. In these roles, he focused on data modeling, front-end query tool creation, and big data technologies.
Background in Data Engineering
Brooks Johnson has a robust background in data engineering, with experience dating back to 1999. He has previously worked at Amazon from 2012 to 2016 on AWS Database Services, Verdiem as a Sr. Database Engineer from 2007 to 2011, and Bocada as a Data Architect from 2004 to 2007. His earlier roles included positions at Qpass and Plaster Group @ Yapta, which helped shape his comprehensive understanding of data systems and architectures.
Technical Expertise
Brooks Johnson specializes in performance tuning and highly parallel ETL development. He is proficient in Java, Scala, and Python, and has hands-on experience with technologies like Hadoop Streaming, Hive, AWS Redshift, Airflow, and DBT. His skill set also includes using cloud platforms like GCS and PostgreSQL Cloud SQL and maintaining Kubernetes for container orchestration.