Summary
John Tigue is a founder and hands-on software engineer with 11 years of startup-focused experience and a BS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins. He blends daily coding (TypeScript, Python, serverless, ML) with product and team leadership, repeatedly shipping web-native systems from prototype to production. A serial entrepreneur, he has led projects across education tech, neuroscience tools, blockchain gaming, and now transparent LLM tooling with Connoiter’s Datamaps and an open Datamap Schema. He has deep roots in web and standards work—he was one of 16 members of the XML 1.0 Working Group and helped bring XML into Apache—so he pairs practical engineering with standards-level thinking. Colleagues rely on him to navigate early, ambiguous phases of product development while keeping code skills sharp and customers delighted.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University