J. Eli Johnson · Senior Software Engineer · Eagle Mountain, UT

From equations
to code.

I spent years teaching high-school math — fielding every possible variant of “when will we ever use this?” Then I went and used all of it. Seven-plus years now as a senior front-end engineer shipping e-commerce, Web3, and SaaS platforms, and these days I run an AI-accelerated dev studio from the foot of the Wasatch.

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Eli Johnson in the Wasatch foothills in autumn
the Wasatch, October — office with the best view
Career plotted as a function A rising curve from 2009, teaching high school math, through a 2018 career change into software, to leading platforms and founding an AI dev studio by 2026. t (years) problems solved 2009 2018 2021 2022 2025 now “when will we ever use this?” B.S. Math → the classroom self-taught → first dev role $10M/mo storefront led Web3 platform, 10+ brands founded eDot Dev you are here
fig. 1 — career as a function of time. not drawn to scale; growth is.

§ 1 · Given

Three premises

(i)

The background

Former evangelist of equations and eternal truths — yes, a math teacher. Now a devoted practitioner of software engineering: same job, honestly. You take an idea and explain it so clearly that even a computer understands it.

(ii)

The household

Husband, dad of two, and staff to a dog named Bert. Most of my off-hours go to teaching my kids to be curious — to notice the infinite beauty all around them and ponder the nature of things.

(iii)

The philosophy

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know. Only a fool believes he knows everything — so I stay curious, stay introspective, and keep the learning loop running.

§ 2 · Proof of work

By construction

  1. 2025 — present

    Founder & Principal Engineer · eDot Dev LLC

    AI-accelerated dev studio. Current flagship engagement: SMT Studio, a ground-up rebuild of a multi-tenant benefits & campaign portal for an enterprise media client — plus SEO rescues and dashboards for local businesses.

  2. 2022 — 2025

    Senior Front-End Engineer · Nerd United

    Led front-end architecture for a white-label Web3 e-commerce template used by 10+ brands. Shipped the NFT utility-activation UI that drove $100k+ in new revenue; Webiny CMS + Next.js ISR pipeline cut page loads 20%. Mentored junior devs.

  3. 2021 — 2022

    Software Engineer · Q Sciences

    Built a headless React/TypeScript PWA on Magento 2 + Gatsby for a $10M/mo brand. Checkout time down 50%+, cart abandonment down 30%, $250k processed on the beta launch weekend.

  4. 2019 — 2021

    Full-Stack Developer · Ilektronx

    Single-handedly built a React Native app with FLIR thermal-camera integration that cut oil-tank measurement time 80% — and kept workers off the tanks entirely.

  5. 2018 — 2019

    Full-Stack Developer · Acuitus AG

    Real-time asset-tracking maps with Google Maps, GeoJSON, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, and Kubernetes. The career change, proven in production.

§ 3 · Worked examples

Selected projects

edotdev.ai

studio

My dev studio: one developer, four AI agents, building fast. Custom sites, AI dashboards, SEO migrations, and business automation for companies along the Wasatch Front — with an agent fleet that literally works while you sleep.

Claude · MCP agents · Next.js · Netlify · Supabase

edotdev.ai →

SMT Studio

enterprise · current

Ground-up rebuild of a multi-tenant operations portal for a global payments program: guided wizards that hide a three-entity data model, autosaved drafts, and coordinated multi-entity builds with live progress. React/TS SPA, Cognito auth, environment-agnostic containers on AWS ECS.

React · TypeScript · AWS ECS · Cognito

GoKey Locksmiths

seo rebuild

WordPress → Hugo static rebuild for a Salt Lake locksmith. 10 indexed pages became 59+, with a programmatic 7-city × 5-service SEO matrix, five schema types, 90+ PageSpeed — and the $300/mo hosting bill became $0.

Hugo · Netlify · JSON-LD · Technical SEO

gokeylocksmiths.com →

The Basement Lab

homelab · r&d

An always-on agent fleet across a DGX Spark, a stack of Raspberry Pis, and retired MacBooks: autonomous voice agents with local STT/TTS, Home Assistant everywhere, self-hosted services, and trading-bot experiments. Where ideas get stress-tested before any client sees them.

LangGraph · local LLMs · Home Assistant · Raspberry Pi · DGX

Nerd United

web3

White-label Web3 e-commerce template powering 10+ brands. I led the front-end architecture and shipped the NFT utility UI — carbon credits, node discounts, reward boosts — worth $100k+ in added revenue.

Next.js · Webiny CMS · Ethereum

Q Sciences

e-commerce

Headless React/TS PWA storefront for a $10M/mo wellness brand — checkout cut in half, Prismic-driven marketing pages, auto-ship and referral flows.

React · Gatsby · Magento 2 · Prismic

Infragauge

mobile · thermal

React Native app that reads oil-tank levels through a FLIR thermal camera — measurement time down 80%, and nobody has to climb the tank. Built solo, end to end, including the native camera modules.

React Native · FLIR SDK · native modules

§ 4 · Toolbox

Notation

Frontend
React · Next.js · TypeScript · Redux · Tailwind · React Native · Flutter
Backend
Node/Express · GraphQL · Python · MongoDB · SQL · REST · MQTT
Cloud & ops
AWS · GCP · Firebase · Docker · CI/CD · OpenTofu/Terraform · Linux
AI & agents
Claude Code · MCP · LangGraph · n8n · ComfyUI · local STT/TTS · agent orchestration
Commerce & CMS
Magento · Shopify · Stripe · Webiny · Prismic · WordPress→Hugo rescues
Hardware
Home Assistant · ESPHome · Raspberry Pi · IoT · 3D printing · robotics

§ 5 · Q.E.D.

Which was to be demonstrated

Theorem: whatever you're trying to ship, it ships faster with someone who has shipped it before. Proof: see above. ∎

For teams hiring

Senior front-end / full-stack engineer — React, Next.js, TypeScript, and whatever the problem actually needs. Remote-friendly, based in Utah.

Résumé LinkedIn GitHub

For businesses

A site that ranks, a dashboard that runs your ops, automation that works while you sleep. My studio takes on a few projects at a time.

edotdev.ai eli9000@gmail.com

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