John Heintz
Dir Of Engineering at Gist Labs
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Heintz is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 13 years of documented experience and a career spanning CTO, Chief Architect, and director roles across startups and enterprises. He co-founded and exited a small-data AI/ML company (Aptage) and continues to build custom AI solutions at Gist Labs AI while directing engineering at HealthBook+, blending hands-on coding with product-focused leadership. A longtime Agile practitioner since 1999, he’s led dozens of technical due diligences and shapes pragmatic architectures for cloud/SaaS systems that balance scale, technical debt, and business outcomes. He mentors technical leaders, designs simple-yet-scalable systems, and is refocusing on consulting while remaining open to full-time opportunities. Based in Austin, he brings uncommon depth in small-data ML forecasting for portfolio and project risk—experience validated by Aptage’s commercial adoption and acquisition.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (21)
mechanize10
java9
science6
bootstrapping6
sarif6
pypi5
hyphenation5
package5
idris5
cookiecutter5
python5
bitrix4
docker4
boilerplate4
quantities4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
GistLabs/mechanize
Sep 2012 - Aug 2014
mechanize for java
Contributions:334 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
javamechanize
GistLabs/versionedfunction
May 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:39 pushes, 4 branches, 3 comments in 2 years 3 months
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