Jim Everingham

VP of Engineering

2024 - Current

DevInfra

Venture Partner

2020

Cofounder and SVP of Engineering

2022 - 2024

Vice President of Engineering, Novi / Payments

2018 - 2022

Head of Engineering, Instagram

2015 - 2018

Senior engineering management at Instagram / Facebook.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.