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 (76)
raspberry-pi9
gatsbyjs8
grafana-dashboard8
exporter7
chromecast7
zigbee7
development-tools7
jquery-ajax7
css7
installers6
google-cloud-platform6
dlna6
cli6
iframe6
google-compute-engine6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tes/lua-resty-router
Nov 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
jbyers/projectionlab-sheets-sync
Mar 2026 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 1 day
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