James Gentes
Principal Technical Product Manager at Procore Technologies
Bend, Oregon, United States
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RockstarJames Gentes is a product and engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building developer platforms, serverless systems, and enterprise software, currently shaping Procore’s internal development platform strategy. He blends hands-on full‑stack development and growth marketing with product leadership—from overseeing a $100M product line at Symantec to co-founding and exiting startups in analytics and industrial robotics. At Cloudflare he helped evolve Workers and serverless app architecture, and he holds a patent in virtual machine clustering, reflecting deep systems expertise. A community builder in Central Oregon, he founded StartupCommunity.org, co-created co‑working and accelerator initiatives, and balances technical craft with mentoring and regional ecosystem development.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
web-application10
material-ui10
saas-application10
serverless10
command-palette10
web-development10
audiowaveform10
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ghost10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ForgedApps/backstage-catalog-webhook-plugin
Oct 2024 - Jan 2026
This plugin enables your Backstage instance to periodically send catalog entity updates to a remote endpoint. It's useful for keeping external systems in sync with your Backstage catalog.
Contributions:6 releases, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 3 months
backstage
jgentes/mixpoint
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Mixpoint is a multi-track audio mixing app for the browser
Contributions:2 reviews, 21 commits, 47 PRs in 1 month
audioaudio-mixingdj
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