Jamie Talbot
CTO at Pinian
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJamie Talbot is a CTO and seasoned software leader with 14 years of experience building high-performance web platforms and teams that bring people closer together. He has led engineering organizations at Axios, Mailchimp, and Medium, scaling teams, introducing cloud-native stacks (Go, gRPC, BigQuery) and transforming release culture from weekly to 15+ deploys per day. A pragmatic founder and principal engineer, he combines hands‑on product delivery—working on billion-row datasets and front-end contributions to Medium’s open-source "snowflake" visualization—with strategic hiring, inclusion, and professional development programs. Jamie is adept at reorganizing organisations into customer-focused, cross-functional teams and building guilds to decentralize technical decision-making. He’s fluent across frontend and backend technologies, experienced in financial and compliance-sensitive systems, and passionate about empowering underrepresented communities. Having lived in multiple countries and holding an MSc in Advanced Computer Science, he brings curiosity and global perspective to scaling people and systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Advanced Computer Science, MSc Advanced Computer Science at The University of Manchester
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
user-interface10
d3js10
front-end-development10
react9
html9
css9
json6
nlp6
webscraping6
python6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Medium/snowflake
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Medium's engineering growth visualization tool
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the "snowflake" tool. Their commits included adding a health check endpoint, loading D3.js from HTTPS, and aligning colors with a spreadsheet. Furthermore, they implemented features to support title and name in the hash, respect hashes on the initial load, and add a level zero to radar charts to avoid spikes. They also integrated a wordmark and a footer containing useful links and updated the titles.
engineeringmediumgrowth-engineeringvisualization
majelbstoat/Celsus
Jul 2011 - Mar 2013
Contributions:45 commits in 1 year 7 months
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