John Gardner
Founder AI Research Engineer, Evolutionary Systems at The AI Collective
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Gardner is a Senior Full-Stack Engineer and founder with two decades of hands-on software experience who now balances production engineering at RevRise Media with exploratory AI research at Ardea. He combines practical CTO-level leadership and team-building from agency and startup roles with deep, in-the-code expertise across GraphQL, REST, SQL analytics, and Vue.js. His research into orchestrated hierarchical systems and ENAS-style composable neural nets reflects a rare fusion of philosophical inquiry and pragmatic engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved testing, documentation, and build processes in notable projects like canjs. Based in Chattanooga, he pairs a developer’s curiosity—travel, biking, gaming and philosophy—with a track record of shipping weekly releases and driving growth at small, fast-moving companies.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
(no degree) Computer Science and Electronics, (no degree) Computer Science and Electronics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Science (AS) Computer Science, Associate of Science (AS) Computer Science at Parkland College
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Github Skills (5)
javascript10
canjs10
testing10
build-automation9
documentation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
canjs/canjs
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Build CRUD apps in fewer lines of code.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 13 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:John made several contributions related to testing and documentation within the canjs repository. They fixed a test call typo and updated a can-util dependency. They also modified the test configuration for Sauce Labs, specifying browser versions. Further, they updated documentation guides, modifying the "draggable" attribute. Finally, they added and modified the dev-bundle in the repository, which indicates work related to build processes.
cruddomjavascriptframeworkcanjs
Sinjhin/sinjhin.github.io
Mar 2018 - May 2024
Contributions:64 PRs, 63 pushes, 61 branches in 6 years 2 months
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