James Byers

Current

• Founder at Tangient LLC

Past

• Director, Engineering at VA Software (formerly VA Linux)

Education

• Cornell University

Recommended

2 people have recommended James

Connections

125 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

James Byers’s Summary

Software engineering manager with experience growing development and QA teams from the ground up. Expertise in open source technology stacks, especially LAMP. Primarily interested in small, new, and high-risk technology ventures.

James Byers’s Specialties:

architecture, application design, engineering management, php, mysql, ruby on rails, bbq

James Byers’s Experience

• Founder

  Tangient LLC

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; LNUX; Computer Software industry)

  September 2003 — Present (5 years 3 months)

  Co-founded and bootstrapped Tangient LLC. Currently growing and developing Wikispaces, a free community wiki host.

• Director, Engineering

  VA Software (formerly VA Linux)

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; LNUX; Computer Software industry)

  October 1999 — June 2003 (3 years 9 months)

  Led SourceForge Enterprise Edition engineering team. Grew from 3 - 40 including development and QA teams in Fremont, CA and Chennai, India. Managed maintenance of legacy product and rearchitecture to Java platform. Before joining the SourceForge team, led IT team implementing an ordering and management system integrated with Oracle Applications.

James Byers’s Education

• Cornell University

  BS, Applied Economics and Management

Additional Information

James Byers’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

James Byers’s Groups:

Cornell Alumni

James Byers’s Contact Settings

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