James Seigel
CTO & Co-founder at atVenu
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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SeniorJames Seigel is a seasoned startup CTO and co-founder with 15 years of experience building high‑scale web and mobile systems, currently leading engineering and product delivery at atVenu from Calgary. He architects solutions that turn live-event merchandise and media sales into measurable revenue streams for artists, labels, and venues, combining product strategy with hands‑on technical leadership. Previously he led architecture at Tynt.com, helping operate one of the world’s largest data aggregation platforms that processed tens of thousands of events per second and produced billions of monthly records. James excels at taming massive volumes of data and turning them into actionable forecasting and operational systems, while also incubating stealth projects through his consulting practice. He’s known for enjoying gnarly technical problems and keeping teams productive and engaged, aiming to balance disciplined engineering with a fun, mission-driven culture. An underrated strength is his ability to translate noisy, high‑velocity telemetry into practical business decisions that boost net revenue for stakeholders.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (200)
redash10
couchdb10
pouchdb10
davinci10
sketching10
bigquery10
json-api10
levelup10
whiteboard10
visualization10
expo10
frontend10
python10
pocket10
nosql-database10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
seigel/cyrano
Apr 2022 - May 2024
A clean room javascript implementation of the cyrano 2.0 protocol for fencing machines
Contributions:7 PRs, 37 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 1 month
machinesprotocoljavascriptfencingroom
seigel/pouchdb-server
Mar 2018 - Jun 2021
CouchDB-compatible server built on PouchDB and Node
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years 4 months
javascriptnodejsdatabasepouchdbcouchdb
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