Jules Pieri
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJules Pieri is a seasoned founder, CEO, investor and adjunct entrepreneurship faculty with a track record of scaling consumer businesses—from launching The Grommet to leading product and digital transformations at Fortune 500 brands. She combines creative industrial design roots and hands-on product development with rigorous operational leadership, having driven acquisitions, integrations, and a $60M revenue P&L. Jules advises and invests in AI-driven product design startups and contributes technical DevOps work to open-source docs deployment and CI/CD pipelines, showing she remains engaged in engineering-grade execution. A fluent global operator shaped by years living overseas and executive roles at Rakuten in Tokyo, she brings marketplace, DTC and community-building expertise across B2C and B2B models. Her writing (How We Make Stuff Now) and board roles reflect a talent for translating product intuition into strategy and measurable outcomes. Growing up in Detroit as the daughter of an autoworker, she credits early-tenacity and grit—evident in a lifelong pattern of reinventing businesses and mentoring other founders.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BFA summa cum laude, BFA summa cum laude at University of MichiganBoard Bootcamp Graduate, Board Bootcamp Graduate at Massachusetts Technology Leadership CouncilBoard-Ready Women Certification, Board-Ready Women Certification at DeloitteMBA, MBA at Harvard Business School
French
Github Skills (5)
heroku10
github-ci10
githubaction-workflow10
cicd10
javascript4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
github/docs
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
The open-source repo for docs.github.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:45 reviews, 850 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jules's commits indicate a focus on integrating and deploying the documentation site to a production environment using Heroku. They were responsible for updating environment configuration variables and ensuring the build and release process. The user also contributed to setting up a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions. Code changes involved debugging and troubleshooting deployment processes.
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leiathedog/boop
Nov 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 2 issues in 3 years 5 months
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