Jim Hughes
VP Of Engineering at Swell
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Hughes is a hands-on engineering executive with 10+ years of experience scaling products, organizations, and revenue across startups and large tech firms. Currently VP of Engineering at Capital One and advising early-stage Swell, he has led teams up to 250 people, managed $62M+ operational budgets, and repeatedly found product-market fit—from turning Verve Industrial into a product company to doubling revenue streams at Grecmo. At Google he guided Drive consumer+SMB product and platform efforts, improving reliability to 99.99%+ while architecting syncing/caching systems that moved 80+ Tbps and integrating leading GenAI tools. Jim combines deep systems and security expertise (Hyper-V/Shielded VMs, global key management hardening) with a talent for operational efficiency, having implemented org-level engineering ladders, OKRs, and devex platforms that materially boosted velocity and developer satisfaction. Based in Boulder, he blends strategic product instincts with low-level protocol and infrastructure work—often personally writing the plumbing that enables scale.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (10)
confluence8
amazon8
aws7
amazon-web-services7
angular7
command-line-interface7
aws-cli6
cli6
material-design5
infrastructure5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
HUU/lolno
Mar 2020 - Jan 2025
Ghost theme
Contributions:4 PRs, 35 pushes in 4 years 10 months
ghostghost-theme
HUU/Junction
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Use git to manage content in Confluence Cloud
Contributions:7 releases, 2 reviews, 61 commits in 1 year 6 months
confluenceconfluence-cloud
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