Summary
James 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