Jon Gardiner
Distinguished Architect at BambooHR
Provo, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Gardiner is a seasoned software architect and hands-on engineer with over two decades of experience building products from DOS-era desktop apps to modern web and mobile systems, and 11 years in senior roles. As a founding developer at BambooHR he scaled engineering, owned architecture and operations, and now serves as Distinguished Architect overseeing payroll and benefits systems. He excels at assembling and mentoring high-performing teams, shipping pragmatic solutions, and keeping systems reliable 24/7 while remaining an active coder. Jon has deep LAMP and web application roots, plus experience in billing, data warehousing, and developer tooling—he even authored an open-source PHP static analyzer (Guardrail). Based in Provo, Utah, he combines institutional knowledge of a growing SaaS product with a preference for product-focused architecture rather than sprawling corporate infrastructure. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who enjoys both low-level technical detail and developing talent across the organization.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Utah State UniversityAssociate’s Degree, Pre-Engineering, Associate’s Degree, Pre-Engineering at Dixie State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Utah Valley University
Github Skills (18)
php8
static-analysis8
http-header1
listener1
pattern1
asynchronous1
monitoring1
static-code-analysis1
sniffer1
asterisk1
synchronous1
observer-pattern1
php-codesniffer1
operator1
observer1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
BambooHR/guardrail
Apr 2017 - Nov 2022
BambooHR's home grown PHP Static Analysis tool
Contributions:7 releases, 72 reviews, 280 commits in 5 years 7 months
php-static-analysisphpbamboohrstatic-analysisgrown
jongardiner/StaticAnalysis
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 97 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
phpstatic-analysis
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