Jamie Thingelstad
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Senior Vice President (SVP) at Minnesota Technology Association
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJamie Thingelstad is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with over two decades of leadership driving product and platform innovation across financial services, media, retail, and SaaS. As EVP and CTO at SPS Commerce since 2013, he has scaled retail cloud services that enable industry-wide collaboration while also serving on boards including Air T and the Minnesota Technology Association. He blends startup experience—co-founding WebSpan and leading early-stage firms—with enterprise CTO roles at MarketWatch, Dow Jones, and the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, giving him a rare perspective on both rapid innovation and operational rigor. An active public thinker, he publishes The Weekly Thing newsletter on technology, leadership, and productivity, revealing a continuous curiosity about how organizations and engineers work best. Based in Minneapolis, he also contributes to regional tech governance as a State of Minnesota technology council member, signaling a commitment to civic tech and ecosystem building.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (43)
mediawiki10
mediawiki-extension9
celery9
linked-data9
semantic-mediawiki9
metadata9
semantic-web9
svg9
sparql9
rdf9
database8
raster8
knowledge-graph8
knowledge-management8
meta-tags8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thingles/Number2Words
Jul 2011 - Nov 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
jthingelstad/micro.thingelstad.com
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:448670 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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