Jim Meyer
Principal at Meyer For Hire
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJim Meyer is an executive technical advisor and principal consultant with 17 years of experience helping companies decide what software to build and validating that it’s the right choice. He blends hands-on engineering and product strategy—having led infrastructure, performance, and product teams at Slack, Salesforce/Quip, and LinkedIn—and now advises AI-enabled finance at Arc while running Meyer For Hire. Jim has steered cloud and OpenStack efforts at SUSE and HPE, scaled developer-facing platforms at Rackspace, and helped grow Wealthfront into a leading automated investing service. He’s comfortable operating as a fractional CTO, building leadership teams, and translating business goals into roadmaps, architecture, and operational practices. A practical systems thinker, he emphasizes automation and developer momentum to increase shipping velocity and quality. Based in California, he often brings studio-era pipeline discipline and production-scale engineering habits to product organizations.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (103)
command-line-interface10
mvc10
ruby10
chat10
markdown10
html10
rails10
slack10
webrtc10
aws-cli10
libxml210
amazon-web-services10
aws10
jekyll10
javascript9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
purp/vanilla_rails_app
Jan 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
dberube/trello-alfred
Apr 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 comments in 6 years 3 months
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