Mike Gintz
Co-Founder at Digital Public Ventures
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Gintz is a civic technologist and founder with roughly a decade of experience leading UX, product strategy, and government digital transformation efforts to make public services more usable and resilient. After directing R&D teams inside the federal Technology Transformation Services and shaping user experience at 18F, he co-founded Digital Public Ventures to guard civic infrastructure from political and corporate capture. He blends creative, pragmatic problem-solving with hands-on workshop facilitation, information architecture, data visualization, and team leadership, and has repeatedly moved ideas into deployable solutions across government, agency, and agency-adjacent roles. Known for summarizing complexity clearly and brokering practical compromises, he brings an uncommon mix of policy-minded systems thinking and product craft. Based in Somerville, MA, he also signals a long-standing curiosity across art, sustainability, and social justice that informs his approach to resilient civic tech.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English literature, BA, English literature at Boston University
Github Skills (59)
discord10
policies10
recurly10
discord-bot10
telegram-bot10
active9
lists9
openvpn9
stunnel9
openconnect9
openssh9
tor9
ssh8
python8
open-data8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
union-square-neighborhood-council/unionsquareneighborhoodcouncil.org
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:244 pushes in 5 months
18F/eligibility-apis-initiative
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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