Managing Creative Teams

James is the Vice President of Engineering at Meta, where he supports their DevInfra teams. DevInfra is responsible for building and running the core developer tools, services, and platforms that power Meta's products. During his time at Meta, James co-created Diem and served as the Head of Engineering at Instagram. With a 40-year career as a manager, entrepreneur, and technology developer, James has led numerous world-class engineering teams. At Yahoo, he was the Vice President of Engineering for Yahoo media properties after the acquisition of Luminate, an interactive image technology company he founded. His previous roles include SVP Eng at Lightspark, CTO and founding team member of LiveOps, Senior Director of Engineering at Tellme (acquired by Microsoft), and Senior Director of Engineering at Netscape Communications, where he was responsible for the flagship Netscape browser. Prior to joining Netscape, James held engineering and management positions at Oracle and Borland International.