John Vandivier
Staff Software Engineer at Gusto
Centreville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Vandivier is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building AI-driven, full-stack systems for fintech, healthcare, and enterprise customers. He has led Applied Generative AI initiatives at a fintech unicorn and now drives retirement-focused AI engineering at Gusto, shipping agentic and human-in-the-loop products integrated with Salesforce and Slack. With a Ph.D. in Economics and a background in D.C. policy work, he blends rigorous data analysis, risk-aware AI guardrails, and product-minded engineering to deliver measurable business impact. He’s improved revenue, developer productivity, and platform reliability across companies like Upstart, Amazon, and Capital One, and founded internal guilds and tooling that accelerated Python adoption and library publishing. An active open-source contributor, mentor, and educator, John reaches over 30k followers teaching programming and routinely elevates stakeholder AI literacy through training and pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics and Political Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Economics and Political Science at University of HoustonDiploma, Diploma at GHSDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Economics at George Mason UniversityMaster's degree Public Policy Analysis, Master's degree Public Policy Analysis at George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
English
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
slideshow10
postgrest10
e2e10
reveal-js10
tencent10
dotenv10
browser10
cypress-plugin10
pattern10
react-testing-library10
firefox10
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firebase-database10
dependency-injection10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Vandivier/next-netlify-psychiatric
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Vandivier/python-hello-web-monorepo
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
a full stack educational blog application written using three python web frameworks
Contributions:4 reviews, 39 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
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