John Stanford
Distinguished Engineer at KamiwazaAI
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Stanford is a Distinguished Engineer with 12+ years of experience building scalable cloud and advertising systems, currently driving AI-focused work at KamiwazaAI after leadership roles at Amazon, VMware, and Sun. He blends product-driven engineering with hands-on architecture, having led multi-disciplinary teams that delivered nine-figure annual ad revenue gains and enterprise-grade private clouds across geographies. His background spans early-stage startup bootstrapping to negotiating multi-million dollar vendor contracts and implementing automation for auto-scaling risk platforms. Known for bridging customers, scientists, and engineers, he repeatedly turns complex research and policy-driven ideas into production-ready, high-impact products. Unusually, his career pairs deep systems expertise—from storage and disaster recovery to Scala-based cloud APIs—with a persistent focus on customer value and operational scalability.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Comp. Sci. Math minor, BS Comp. Sci. Math minor at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (143)
python10
zipline10
podcast10
harness9
monitoring9
ai9
superagent9
deep-learning9
copilot9
memgraph9
agentic9
spec9
machine-learning9
multi-agent9
docker9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kamiwaza-ai/kamiwaza-sdk
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026
Kamiwaza Client SDK
Contributions:45 reviews, 9 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 year
SentientSwarm/agent-locksmith
Mar 2026 - Jun 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
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