Cole Johnson

Cole Johnson leads engineering at Runway, where he builds an AI-powered platform to help students find internships and early-career jobs. Before co-founding the company, he worked on frontend infrastructure at Slack and helped build the first version of July; he also taught Purdue’s CS193 course.

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Based in: Atlanta

Runway

Dec 2024 — Present

CTO & Co-Founder

July

May 2022 — Apr 2023

Senior Software Engineer

Slack

Aug 2020 — May 2022

Software Engineer

Slack

Aug 2019 — Aug 2020

Associate Software Engineer

Slack

May 2018 — Aug 2019

Software Engineering Intern

BoilerMake

Nov 2017 — Nov 2018

Head of Design

Purdue University

Aug 2017 — Dec 2017

Lecturer & Course Lead (CS193)

Mimir HQ

May 2017 — Aug 2017

Software Engineer

Kevy

May 2016 — Aug 2016

Software Engineer

Purdue University

Bachelor's studies in software

The Lovett School

Products & media

colej.xyz

Cole Johnson

His personal site outlines his work building Runway and highlights earlier projects at July and Slack, a patent, and teaching at Purdue.

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Runway

July

Slack

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BoilerMake

Purdue University

Mimir HQ

Kevy

Purdue University

The Lovett School

Products & media

Cole Johnson

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