Justin Vanderheide
Co-Owner Ninja Coach at Steel Peak Climbing & Ninja
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Vanderheide is a pragmatic software leader and operator with 14 years of experience building and shipping cross-platform mobile games, productivity SaaS, and full‑stack web systems. As a former Technical Lead and General Manager at Uken Games he shipped commercially successful titles like Jeopardy! World Tour and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, scaling teams and owning product roadmaps and live ops. He pairs hands‑on engineering (from client UI to back-end infrastructure) with operational discipline—now split between running a 20k sqft climbing and Ninja Warrior gym he co-owns and developing productivity tools used by thousands of companies. Known for hiring and mentoring high-performing teams, Justin blends product intuition, financial modeling, and a willingness to do front-line work (from coaching to facility maintenance). An avid outdoorsman, he regularly resets his perspective on week-long backcountry portage trips, which informs his pragmatic, resilient approach to building teams and products.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Korean
Github Skills (36)
angularjs9
facebook-sdk7
javascript7
angular7
javascript-game-engine6
javascript-game6
game-development5
engine5
sdk5
facebook5
game-engine4
silverlight3
responders3
nette2
windows-phone2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jayvan/TPwn
Oct 2011 - Nov 2012
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 1 month
jayvan/lottostats
Sep 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:4601 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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