Jesse Proudman
Co-Founder And CTO at Venice.ai
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Proudman is a serial founder and technology executive with over two decades of startup leadership and 11 years of focused experience building cloud, crypto, and quantitative trading businesses. As Co-Founder and CTO of Venice.ai and former VP at Betterment, he has shepherded companies from seed to acquisition, raising $28M in venture capital and delivering three successful exits. His background includes founding Blue Box (acquired by IBM), leading IBM Bluemix Private Cloud as a Distinguished Engineer, and launching crypto-focused firms Makara and Strix Leviathan. Jesse blends hands-on engineering and product strategy with deep ops and cloud infrastructure expertise, often applying applied mathematics and data science to trading and asset management. Based in Seattle, he’s as comfortable coaching founders and building teams as he is tinkering with race cars or maritime projects—an entrepreneur who balances technical rigor with adventurous curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA Business Leadership Program, BA Business Leadership Program at University of Puget SoundEntrepreneurial Masters Program Certificate - Class of 2014, Entrepreneurial Masters Program Certificate - Class of 2014 at Entrepreneurs Organization
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Github Skills (173)
animated10
gesture10
animation10
javascript9
feature-toggle9
api9
currency-exchange-rates9
coinbase9
native-module9
rake9
react-native9
gdax-api9
localstorage9
capybara9
sprockets9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
blueboxjesse/flipper-activerecord
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:3 PRs, 13 pushes, 12 comments in 10 months
railsrubyadapterflipperactiverecord
strixleviathan/coinbase-exchange-ruby
May 2018 - Apr 2020
Official Ruby library for the GDAX API
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
apigdaxrubygdax-apiruby-library
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