James Paden
Chief Product Officer at Parker Technology
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolJames Paden is a product and AI-focused technology executive with 15 years of experience building and scaling product-led SaaS and AI solutions, currently serving as Chief Product Officer at Parker Technology and co-founding Pragmatico to help leaders turn AI into a practical superpower. He blends hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial instincts—founding and exiting multiple startups (including Emailium) and leading acquisitions and due diligence across a product portfolio that achieved 3x industry-average ARR per employee. Known for vetting hundreds of product ideas for commercial and technical viability, he specializes in turning complex AI and LLM capabilities into pragmatic, customer-facing features that amplify human strengths. Based in Indianapolis, he pairs data-driven decision making with a curiosity about scaling empathy in products, and has a track record of shipping durable platforms still in use years later.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Organizational Leadership, Bachelor's Degree, Organizational Leadership at University of Indianapolis
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Github Skills (114)
ruby-client10
pdf-generation10
dynamodb10
rds10
aws-sdk10
nativephp10
java-programming10
cloudwatch10
html-to-pdf10
rest9
lambda9
database9
swagger9
rest-api9
amazon-web-services9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
DocRaptor/docraptor-python
Feb 2016 - Sep 2022
A native Python client for the DocRaptor document generation service.
Contributions:2 reviews, 17 commits, 10 PRs in 6 years 8 months
python
DocRaptor/docraptor-php
Feb 2016 - Nov 2022
A native PHP client for the DocRaptor document generation service.
Contributions:2 reviews, 21 commits, 12 PRs in 6 years 10 months
nativephp
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