James Horey
Co-founder & CEO at Slideform Inc.
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Horey is a founder-led software executive with 13 years of experience building data-driven products and platforms, currently co-founder and CEO of Slideform, which automates the creation of client-facing presentations by linking metrics to custom templates. He previously founded Reviewbox—acquired by Talkwalker—where he built monitoring and alerting tools for e-commerce reviews and then served as a PM at Talkwalker, combining startup grit with product management at scale. His background includes leading data science and analytics teams, building cloud big-data tooling at OpenCore, and research roles at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, reflecting deep expertise across data engineering, analytics, and distributed systems. James holds a PhD in Computer Science and pairs academic rigor with a bias for shipping practical products that eliminate repetitive work for teams. Based in Knoxville, Tennessee, he focuses on turning complex data integrations into simple, time-saving workflows for client-facing organizations. An operator-founder by trade, he often bridges research-grade systems and user-focused product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at The University of New MexicoB.A Computer Science and Mathematics; Computer Science, B.A Computer Science and Mathematics; Computer Science at Hendrix College
Korean
Github Skills (4)
openstack6
aws6
docker5
big-data4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jhorey/koopa
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 8 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 months
jhorey/ferry
Mar 2014 - Feb 2015
Ferry lets you define, run, and deploy big data applications on AWS, OpenStack, and your local machine using Docker
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 11 months
awsbig-datadockeropenstack
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