JE

Jim Everingham

VP of Engineering, Meta

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

Skills

Scalability
Cloud Computing
Agile Methodologies
Software Development
Entrepreneurship
Management
Project Management
Scrum
Product Design
Recruiting
Team Leadership
C++
Sales
Operations Management
Web Applications
Crowdsourcing
Telecommunications
Six Sigma
Language Development
Mentoring

Education

Work Experience

2024

  • VP of Engineering

    2024

    DevInfra

Lobby Capital

2020

  • Venture Partner

    2020

2022 - 2024

  • Cofounder and SVP of Engineering

    2022 - 2024

2015 - 2022

  • Vice President of Engineering, Novi / Payments

    2018 - 2022

  • Head of Engineering, Instagram

    2015 - 2018

    Senior engineering management at Instagram / Facebook.

2014 - 2015

  • Vice President of Engineering, Homepage and Verticals

    2014 - 2015

    Responsibilities include the engineering management of the Yahoo.com flagship homepage and vertical destination sites: Yahoo Sports, Fantasy Sports, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Magazines, Publisher Tools, Publisher Anaytics,Yahoo original content publishing tools, Yahoo Screen, and Yahoo Live broadcast video services - in all, an engineering organization of over 1000.

2008 - 2014

  • CEO / Founder

    2012 - 2014

    Responsibilities include day to day management and leadership of Luminate, Inc. Accomplishments include: pioneering image monetization "in-image" ads, building a high caliber engineering organization, scaling the Luminate network to over 200 million uniques monthly with over 10,000 publishers, raised 3 successful rounds of funding from top tier venture capital firms, filed over 30 patents with over 10 awarded to date.

  • CTO / Founder

    2008 - 2012

    Responsibilities include: definition and execution of the Luminate technology road map, investigating new technologies that help scale the Luminate network, providing engineering and product direction, inventing new products and customer solutions, manage and drive Luminate's IP protection strategy, meet with potential customers and solution providers.

2001 - 2008

  • CTO / Co-Founder

    2003 - 2008

    My responsibilities included: ownership of the LiveOps technology roadmap, Investigating VoIP technologies and help architect, define, and design future products, meet with large enterprise customers for sales and solutions, hiring. Accomplishments: Built award winning LiveOps complete end-to-end call center solution, help land the top enterprise customers, drive implementation of self-serve hosted call center solution, helped build revenue to over $100m/year, awarded two 2 key patents, built the largest distributed call center in existence with over 20,000 work at home agents.

  • Vice President of Engineering / Co-Founder

    2001 - 2003

    As the co-founding technical lead at Callcast (later to become LiveOps), my responsibilities included: defining the initial architecture of the LiveOps VoIP telephony platform alongside our founding engineering team, helped design and drive implementation of crowdsourcing community management tools, built the engineering team to over 70, implemented engineering best practices and processes, managed LiveOps IP strategy, helped build revenues to over $40m/year.

1999 - 2001

  • Senior Director of Engineering

    1999 - 2001

    Managed core infrastructure groups responsible for data warehousing, reporting, web services, content feeds, and voice applications. Helped build engineering group to over 200 engineers, define engineering management processes, engineering best practices, develop front line managers, Awarded 2 patents.

  • Director of Engineering / Browser

    1995 - 1999

    Led the engineering group responsible for the flagship Netscape browser. During my tenure at Netscape, I was involved in Netscape browser versions 1 through 6 with responsibilities ranging from implementation to management. Other accomplishments: Provided management and leadership to engineering team through AOL acquisition while maintaining a 0% attrition rate through a difficult cultural transition, designed and implemented the Netscape email composition client, shipped the first post-merger Netscape browser 6.0, help architect components which still endure today in popular web browser such as Firefox. Awarded 1 patent.

1992 - 1995

  • Senior Engineer, Borland C++

    1992 - 1995

    As a member of the Borland languages team, my responsibilities included: design and implementation of the code editor portion for the C++ integrated development environment, development and design of the Borland C++ languages compiler and supportive tools.