John Griffin
Co-Founder at Berkeley SkyDeck
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Griffin is a San Francisco–based founder and operator with nine years of focused experience building AI-driven products and agencies that help SaaS and enterprise teams automate complex workflows. As co-founder of Spiral Scout, Wippy AI, Spiral QA, and several other ventures, he has overseen 600+ software projects and accelerated AI feature deployment by integrating self-learning agents into product stacks. He combines product strategy, offshore engineering, and digital marketing expertise to reduce development costs and create new monetizable AI experiences for clients in CRM, finance, legal, and support. An active advisor and angel investor, he mentors startups at UC Berkeley SkyDeck and backs early-stage companies, bringing operator insight to investment decisions. Notably, his work emphasizes embedding AI as a data-and-automation layer rather than just an experimental feature—driving measurable engineering time savings and new revenue streams.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
International Relations German Studies, International Relations German Studies at Freie Universität BerlinPhillips Exeter AcademyBachelor's Degree International Relations/German, Bachelor's Degree International Relations/German at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (17)
spiral10
spiral-framework9
php9
database9
documentation9
audio3
gist3
roadrunner3
ffmpeg2
grpc2
cli2
multimedia2
lua2
page-editor1
editor1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
spiralscout/goffli
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
luagithub-gistabilitysnippetscli-wrapper
spiralscout/roadrunner
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
High-Performance PSR-7 PHP application server, load balancer and process manager
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
php82roadrunnerprocess-managercontrol-panelspiral
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