James Kessler
Chief Operating Officer
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kessler is a technology executive and operator with 25 years of startup experience and a 13-year track record of hands-on engineering and leadership. As COO of Coveralls.io he combines product and engineering stewardship to deliver test-coverage-as-a-service while previously scaling technical organizations as CTO and Director of Technology across retail and consumer brands. He has founded and led multiple ventures—building inventory and fit-search systems, running offshore engineering teams, and serving as a fractional CTO for fast-growing merchants—so he bridges strategy, product discovery, and execution. Known for turning ambiguous product needs into delivery roadmaps, he routinely aligns engineering squads to business outcomes for companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 clients. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs practical full-stack experience (Ruby on Rails, Java, web stacks) with a founder’s appetite for product-market fit. A less obvious strength is his long history of operating both technical delivery and commercial-facing roles, giving him fluency in engineering, sales enablement, and partnerships.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Honors BA, Summa Cum Laude, Honors BA, Summa Cum Laude at The Ohio State UniversitySFSU Multimedia Studies Program
Github Skills (71)
coverage10
test-coverage10
orb10
istanbul10
capybara10
code-coverage10
coveralls10
lcov10
nosetests10
minitest10
circleci-orb9
espn9
sketchup9
testing9
ruby9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
afinetooth/coveralls-demo-ruby
Apr 2020 - Jul 2024
Coveralls demo project for Ruby
Contributions:70 PRs, 533 pushes, 56 branches in 4 years 3 months
coverallsdemo-projectrubysketchupwebpage
afinetooth/coveralls-test-travis
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
Test Rails project with Coveralls using Travis for CI
Contributions:12 PRs, 28 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
ruby-on-railscoverallsusing-travisrailsruby
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