About

James Turnbull

I live in Brooklyn, New York. I'm originally from Melbourne, Australia via Sydney and a few other places.

I am CTO at Smartrr, an e-commerce startup in the Shopify ecosystem. Previously I was an SVP of Engineering at Sotheby’s, VP of Engineering at Timber, Glitch, CTO in residence at Microsoft, founder and CTO at Empatico, CTO at Kickstarter, VP of Services at Docker, VP of Engineering at Venmo, and VP Tech Operations for Puppet Labs. I have also published eleven technical books.

My interests include cooking, wine, tattoos, political theory, photojournalism, philosophy, poetry. I enjoy good conversation, laughter, reading, music, and my cats. Things that piss me off are jingoism, bad grammar, violence and cucumber.