James Marks
CTO & Co-Founder at Rivora
Albany, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJames Marks is a seasoned entrepreneur and technology leader with 13 years of experience founding, scaling, and exiting companies focused on empowering the creative class. As CTO & Co-Founder of Rivora and former CEO/co-founder of Whiplash and TRIVIAL, he blends product, design, and engineering to build inclusive, durable businesses and go-to-market strategies. He has deep operational experience across e-commerce, merchandising, and retail logistics, and a proven track record of bootstrapping, raising capital, building teams, and executing exits. Based in Albany, California, he also co-hosted a long-running podcast dissecting the online shopping and shipping experience, reflecting a rare mix of hands-on technical leadership and customer-facing storytelling. Notably, his career spans founding small businesses since the late 1990s through leading modern tech-enabled supply chain ventures, showing persistent curiosity and adaptability.
14 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (52)
css9
http9
csv9
html9
web-development8
js8
xml8
documentation8
excel8
javascript8
nodejs7
json7
spreadsheet7
web-standards7
vue7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
solid-adventure/trivial-ui
Jul 2023 - Dec 2024
Example UI for trivial-core
Contributions:93 reviews, 141 PRs, 193 pushes in 1 year 5 months
solid-adventure/trivial-core
May 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:13 reviews, 36 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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