James Byers

Likes Startups, Founder of Wikispaces.com

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
Past
Education
  • Cornell University
Connections
125 connections
Industry
Computer Software
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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 2003Present (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 1999June 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


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