John Aven
Founder at snoodleboot, LLC
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Aven is a hands-on founder and seasoned technology leader with 11 years of engineering and executive experience building cloud-native, data and AI platforms for enterprises and startups. He has led and scaled engineering organizations of 30–100+ engineers, designed multi-cloud architectures and production MLOps pipelines, and drove SOC2 and compliance programs that enabled enterprise deployments. Equally comfortable on the trade-show floor or deep in code, he specializes in turning consulting practices into product-led businesses and shortening delivery cycles through process, tooling, and architecture changes. His background spans applied research in computational science and nonlinear signal processing to practical data engineering and BI/AI productization, giving him a rare blend of theoretical rigor and production savvy. Based in Houston, he advises Forbes 500 clients via his consultancy, snoodleboot, while remaining intensely involved in technical implementation and team mentorship. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of integrating best-of-breed vendor tooling rather than rebuilding, accelerating time-to-value for customers.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Science at Claremont Graduate UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Science at San Diego State University
Github Skills (41)
cereal8
survival-analysis8
serialization8
streaming6
qr-code6
statistics6
cox-regression6
queuing6
messaging6
pubsub5
batch-processing5
k8s5
pulsar5
machine-learning5
python5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
snoodleboot-io/lavs
Feb 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:2 releases, 20 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 5 months
hashmapinc/providah
Aug 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 8 months
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