Gavin Bauman is a Full Stack Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and mobile solutions, currently shaping B2B lending acceleration at Worth AI while leading engineering at Stately. He blends hands-on architecture and feature delivery—from Azure-based enterprise systems at Microsoft to cross-platform medical apps via his firm Bionic Panda—ensuring maintainability, observability, and compliance. An active open-source contributor, Gavin has added persistence and workflow examples to the widely used xstate project, connecting actor-based state machines to databases like MongoDB. Based in Atlanta, he pairs practical engineering with mentorship and developer evangelism, and famously unwinds by keeping sharp in fighting games—so expect a competitive, iterative approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Xavier University of Louisiana
High School, High School at Lusher Charter High School
Actor-based state management & orchestration for complex app logic.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 commits, 10 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gavin contributed significantly to the `xstate` repository by implementing features related to persistence and workflow management. They added examples of state persistence using MongoDB, integrating `xstate` with a database for saving and restoring state. Furthermore, they updated application request workflows, incorporating actor syntax and removing invalid transitions. Additionally, they added a media scanner workflow example.
Contributions:20 PRs, 27 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 9 months
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Gavin Bauman - Full Stack Engineer at Bionic Panda, LLC