About
Ty Johnston
Founder & Lead Engineer, Fopull LLC. Knoxville, TN.
- Coding
- Since 2018, 8 years and counting
- Studio
- Fopull LLC, founded 2024
In my own words
I founded Fopull LLC to do the kind of software work I actually want to do: thoughtful, honest, end to end. I write everything from the database up: Laravel, Unity, Rust, infrastructure, the boring middle.
The studio ships its own software as proof. Floptle is a game engine in Rust with a managed multiplayer service behind it. Fontelle is a DAW. Storage Sifter is a disk-usage tool for Linux. Foduel is a card game with its own rules engine, and Foverse is the community platform the games live in. All of it runs on hardware I own, behind a tunnel, and the incidents are written up in public.
Client work is the other half. It is the same engineering applied to somebody else's problem: a written plan first, then a system built and run by the person who wrote the plan. Outside of that I make music and put videos on YouTube.
The hardware in the room
Everything on fopull.com runs on machines I own and can put a hand on. Photographed 15 September 2026.
What the studio holds to
- Scope in writing
- A plan you can read before anything is built, and take anywhere.
- Own the whole system
- Schema, API, frontend, deploy, backups, on-call. One person who can answer for all of it.
- Ship in public
- The products are open source or free to use, and the ops log is published.
- Hand over runbooks
- Every system leaves with the notes to run it without Fopull.
Elsewhere
- GitHub
- github.com/Fopull-LLC
- linkedin.com/in/ty-johnston-46887b316/
- YouTube
- youtube.com/@fopull
- Engineering log
- What broke, what was measured, what changed
- Résumé