Gordon Anderson
VP, Data Cloud
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGordon Anderson is a seasoned technology and media executive with 16 years of experience building data-driven SaaS products and leading global teams across North America, Europe and Asia. As VP, Data Cloud at Demandbase he’s focused on post-merger integration and scaling combined data products, drawing on a decade-plus tenure shaping product content and data operations at InsideView. He blends editorial rigor from a background as a financial journalist and editor with deep technical familiarity in NLP, Big Data, Hadoop, Lucene and distributed development practices. An entrepreneur and early-stage investor, he has co-founded ventures and run content businesses, uniquely bridging newsroom discipline, product management and data science. Active in open source maintenance work—such as quality-focused contributions to the popular SilverStripe blog module—he’s known for attention to edge cases and test-driven fixes. Based in San Francisco, he’s currently stepping back from hands-on coding while mentoring teams and transitioning responsibilities.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA, History, BA, History at University of Pennsylvania
Italian
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Github Skills (12)
php10
silverstripe10
postgresql10
phpunit10
mysql9
widgets9
web-widgets9
fest7
ckeditor6
dreamhost6
ruby-on-rails6
javascript5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-blog
May 2015 - Feb 2016
Blog module for Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 32 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Gordon made multiple contributions to the Silverstripe Blog module, primarily focusing on bug fixes and enhancements. Their work included resolving issues with foreign text handling in tags and categories, addressing database-specific test failures related to PostgreSQL, and adding a tag cloud widget. They also created and modified several unit tests to ensure the functionality of these features, including tests for blog post notifications. The user showed a strong focus on code quality by writing tests and resolving edge cases.
cmssilverstripephp
gordonbanderson/silverstripe-blog
May 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:62 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years 11 months
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