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Mike Gardiner - Director of Engineering in Lehi, UT

Mike Gardiner

Technology Executive / Engineering Director specializing in AI-driven platform transformation

VivintWeber State UniversityLehi, UT12 Years ExperienceDirector Level

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Built a 0-to-1 iOS mobile gardening application that helps users plan, track, and harvest crops with pest control guidance, weather, and climate-zone-based planting date recommendations. Demonstrated strong customer discovery and MVP-first product execution, including a major data challenge: compiling US climate zone data for every ZIP code from widely dispersed public sources into an app-ready database.

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Key Strengths

  • 0-to-1 product building mindset focused on customer value
  • Built and delivered an iOS gardening app from idea through requirements, research, tech stack selection, and launch
  • Strong MVP-first prioritization with phased feature rollout aimed at early revenue
  • Customer-driven iteration via market/user testing and expert feedback loops
  • Able to solve complex data acquisition problems (compiled US climate zone data by ZIP from dispersed sources into a usable database)
  • Calculated risk-taking approach to entrepreneurship

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Experience

Director of EngineeringVivint · Mar 2024 – Present
Founder & CTONanoSoft · Jun 2022 – Mar 2024
Senior Director of Engineering & ArchitectureJobNimbus · Mar 2022 – Jun 2022
Director of EngineeringJobNimbus · Jun 2021 – Mar 2022
Mobile Engineering ManagerJobNimbus · Feb 2021 – Jun 2021
Founder and CTONanoSoft · May 2019 – Feb 2021
Engineering Manager and Principal Software ArchitectSirsiDynix · Aug 2015 – May 2019
Software ArchitectSirsiDynix · Aug 2014 – Aug 2015

Education

Weber State Universitybachelor, Computer Science

Languages

English

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Mike GardinerTechnology Executive / Engineering Director specializing in AI-driven platform transformation