James Turnbull

James Turnbull is CTO at Smartrr, an e-commerce startup focussing on subscriptions and post-sale experiences for customers and merchants. Before Smartrr's, he was SVP of Engineering at Sotheby's, ran startup advocacy at Microsoft, founder and CTO at Empatico, CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Engineering at Venmo, and in leadership roles at Glitch, Docker, Timber, and Puppet. He also had a long career in enterprise technology, working in banking, biotech, and e-commerce. He chaired the O'Reilly Velocity conference series, is a startup advisor and investor, and has written eleven technical books.