James Byers
Group Product Manager, Search at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJames Byers is a product leader with 13 years of experience building large-scale consumer and cloud products, currently leading Travel within Google Search where his team ships Google Flights and Hotels. He combines hands-on startup experience as a co-founder of Tunefind and Wikispaces with senior product roles at Google and TES Global, giving him rare perspective on marketplace dynamics and platform-scale engineering. Based in Zurich, he excels at translating complex travel and cloud problems into user-centered product strategies that drive measurable engagement. Known for bridging product, engineering and business, he brings an applied economics background from Cornell to data-informed decision making and monetization design.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Scarsdale High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Applied Economics and Management, Bachelor’s Degree, Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (105)
pihole10
internet10
raspberry10
monitoring9
raspberry-pi8
gatsbyjs8
design-patterns7
installers7
zigbee7
css7
google-cloud-platform6
home-automation6
home-assistant6
google-compute-engine6
iot6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tes/lua-resty-router
Nov 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
tes/jquery-iframe-transport
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 push, 2 comments in 9 days
jqueryiframejavascriptjquery-ajaxtransport
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