James Montgomery

Work History

ChainML

06.2024 - 04.2025

At ChainML, I managed engineering operations, frontend product, AI agent development, smart contracts, and backend protocol development for the Theoriq platform.
Theoriq: an AI platform for launching and communicating with agents that handled 100k daily users and over 2M daily requests.
AI Agent Wallet: an agent-accessible web3 wallet powered by Turnkey that would allow an agent to operate with delegated funds.
Team Lead: unlocked the CTO from day to day operations and held the vision and priorities for a team of 4 engineers and a designer.

Uphold

05.2021 - 09.2023

At Uphold, I led a multi-functional labs team dedicated to building novel products to address the broader crypto market.
Mobile Crypto Wallet: I led the effort to build & launch a multi-chain self-custodial mobile wallet with support for Bitcoin and Ethereum using React Native and Typescript.
Institutional Trading App: I led and built a high frequency trading application for Uphold's institutional partners using React, Typescript, and Websockets.
Hiring: I ran the hiring process to build my team from scratch, including initial screening and technical evaluation.

Gemini

01.2020 - 05.2021

At Gemini, I owned all projects related to public market data and visualization including new token launches, marketing campaigns, various API integrations, and handled production code releases multiple times per week.
Contentful Overhaul: Scoped and built Contentful CMS to allow stakeholders to manage content/copy changes.
Netlify Migration: Migrated gemini.com from AWS to Netlify hosting and built automated deployments with GitHub to establish a better production flow with one-click rollbacks.
Cryptopedia: Worked with the CEOs to create a new React web application for content publication.

Grubhub

10.2017 - 01.2020

At Grubhub, I managed a team that owns all internal and external marketing department assets including consumer websites, lead generation, internal platforms, product integrations, and email outreach. I supported nearly 100 stakeholders across CRM, B2B, Acquisition, Creative, Finance, and internal product teams in launching multimedia marketing campaigns including programmatic email, SEM, Paid Social, partnerships, multi-variant testing, and converting organic traffic.