Gentry Riggen
Director Of Software Engineering at John Burns Research and Consulting
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolGentry Riggen is a pragmatic software engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling product-focused teams and systems, now serving as Director of Software Engineering in Colorado. He has driven high-impact initiatives—from automating agent payouts that saved $5M at Side to launching consumer mobile apps with 500k+ downloads through his consultancy—while hands-on building with TypeScript, React, React Native, Node.js, and GraphQL. Known for growing teams and shipping migrations and new architectures, he blends strong execution on payments and mobile with DevOps and cloud-native practices. Gentry mentors engineers through career and technical growth and brings a systems-first mindset shaped by early enterprise work at Lockheed Martin and operations leadership in university labs. He pairs product empathy with a taste for practical engineering (and a fondness for cheeseburgers).
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems; Business Administration, Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems; Business Administration at Colorado State University
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Github Skills (178)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GentryRiggen/gentryriggen.com
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 64 PRs, 346 pushes in 4 years
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GentryRiggen/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:82 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years
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