Summary
James Laver is a Senior Technical Lead with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale web, data, and ML systems across agencies and tech giants. He led teams at Google responsible for Python and SQL pipelines processing billions of rows daily, modernized attribution pipelines for ad sales, and cut ML inference runtimes by 75% through production-focused profiling and MLOps practices. As a former CTO and long-time agency lead, he has deep infrastructure and architecture chops—migrating clients to hybrid cloud, scaling engineering teams across time zones, and advising C-suite stakeholders on high-stakes digital platforms. He combines hands-on troubleshooting with people leadership, hiring and mentoring engineers to elevate organizational standards and reliability. Now at monday.com, he brings a rare mix of enterprise-scale data engineering, full-stack product experience, and practical MLOps institutionalization. An early cybernetics graduate, he pairs systems-thinking roots with a track record of turning complex data workflows into dependable production services.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BSC Hons, Cybernetics the Internet & Virtual Worlds, BSC Hons, Cybernetics the Internet & Virtual Worlds at University of Bradford