James Byers

Current

Founder at Tangient LLC

Past

Director, Engineering at VA Software (formerly VA Linux)

Education

Cornell University

Recommended

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Connections

140 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

James Byers’s Summary

Track record of building software people love to use. Experience growing development and QA teams from the ground up. Expertise in open source technology stacks -- especially LAMP -- at scale. Getting pretty good at front-end site performance optimization. Primarily interested in small, new, and high-risk technology ventures.

James Byers’s Specialties:

application design and product management, systems management and operations, engineering team leadership, linux, php, mysql, BBQ

James Byers’s Experience

Founder

Tangient LLC

(Public Company; LNUX; Computer Software industry)

September 2003 — Present (5 years 11 months)

Co-founded and bootstrapped Tangient LLC. Currently building Wikispaces.com, a wiki collaboration site with over 1 million wikis and 2.5 million members.
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.