Jeff Gardner
Exec Chair at SpringTime Ventures
Crested Butte, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Gardner is an experienced executive and software-minded operator with 14 years in tech and a track record of chairing and scaling multiple vertical SaaS businesses across healthcare, field services, waste management, and interpretation platforms. Based in Crested Butte, he combines hands-on product and back-end experience (notably contributing to the intercom-ruby library) with active early-stage investing via SpringTime Ventures to spot and grow promising software startups. As Exec Chair or board member at companies like Boostlingo, ServiceCore, JobNimbus, and Zen Planner (ex-CEO), he focuses on operational rigor, go-to-market cadence, and product-led growth for niche B2B markets. He also champions free-speech projects online, participating in decentralized platforms like Nostr, reflecting an interest in open internet infrastructure beyond enterprise software.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Finance International Business, Finance International Business at Penn State UniversityMBA, MBA at University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Github Skills (5)
intercom10
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
rspec9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
intercom/intercom-ruby
Nov 2012 - Jul 2015
Ruby bindings for the Intercom API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Intercom Ruby library. Their work includes adding methods for deleting users, modifying user attributes like `last_request_at` and `last_impression_at`, and integrating user notes and tags. The user also updated the version number and added the capability to set URLs for message threads. These changes expanded the API's capabilities and improved the library's functionality.
ruby
erskingardner/nips
Jul 2023 - Dec 2025
Nostr Implementation Possibilities
Contributions:44 pushes in 2 years 5 months
nostr
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