James R
Vice President Product Engineering at Paystone
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames R is a seasoned technology leader and Vice President of Product Engineering based in Seattle, with a 30+ year software career and six years in senior executive roles at Paystone and Amazon. He has deep experience scaling customer-facing platforms and operational systems, having led multiple director-level organizations at Amazon focused on customer experience, seller performance, and community. Known for bridging product strategy and engineering execution, he consistently moves complex initiatives from concept to reliable production at enterprise scale. His background includes leadership roles at ARM and early engineering and consulting stints with Apple and Adobe, giving him both hardware-adjacent and software product perspective. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who balances long-term architecture with rapid delivery and cross-functional collaboration. He brings institutional knowledge of retail and marketplace systems, plus an uncommon mix of hands-on engineering pedigree and executive product stewardship.
6 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (3)
hypervisor9
macos6
virtualization5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
machyve/xhyve
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
xhyve, a lightweight OS X virtualization solution
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 commits, 5 PRs in 7 days
virtualizationmacoshypervisoros-x
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