Edd Wilder-James Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Update: my break is coming to an end and I’m searching for the next great adventure. Please get in touch if you are interested. I’m a dynamic leader and catalyst over devrel, product, program management, marketing, and open source, with data, AI, cloud, security as specialisms. I’m open to advisory and non-executive board positions as well as full-time posts.Exploring the application and dynamics of GenAI. My passion is leading and developing product and people in tech, and I've been running hard at that for years. But hands-on understanding is a key part of success, and this allows me to do just that.My journey in data—from co-founding Strata, leading strategy at Silicon Valley Data Science, to shaping TensorFlow's ecosystem at Google—has brought a love for the people, possibilities, and business opportunities that data brings.Many of these principles in exploiting data are timeless, whether you call it analytics, data science, or ML. GenAI is the next evolution, and I'm thrilled to get personal with the technology. That "fingertip feel" is where the magic happens – let's connect!

I'm a Berkeley-trained executive coach, and have a small private practice working with executives and innovators around the world. Contact me if you'd like to discuss a coaching engagement.

San Francisco, California, Us

Senior executive leading strategy, developer relations, brand and go-to-market for Falco, open source threat detection. Relaunched Sysdig's open source message and presence, working across marketing and sales enablement, positioning company to leverage their open source investments. Provided product management and strategy, OKR planning, budget for open source.Successfully positioned and led Falco through its graduation as a CNCF hosted project, making it a cloud native industry-standard technology for threat detection.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Leading programs that bring the best of Google to open source. Led 20+ FTE org resourcing Google's investments in external open source, and leading strategy and execution for aligning Google-originated open source to business goals.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Growing sustainable ecosystems around Google's open source investments. TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Go, and more!

Mountain View, California, Us

Founding executive team member, creating a high-value market presence for a boutique data science consulting firm. Created outsize impact for blue-chip clients thanks to industry thought-leadership and innovative creation of the field of data strategy. Led strategic planning and company culture. Company acquired by Apple.

Co-chair of the Spark Summit conference, with a focus on enterprise and applications.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Advising hardware and internet of things startups on the use of data

London, Greater London, Gb

Analyzing and applying emerging technologies to businesses and their ecosystems.

An open source platform for controlling the internet of things. Seed investor, advisor and board member.

New Rochelle, New York, Us

Led the launch and first year of "Big Data", an innovative open access peer-reviewed journal, providing a unique forum for exploring big data and data science. With a hybrid magazine-journal format, it brings together practitioners and researchers over diverse disciplines.

Observe and comment on emerging technology.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

Conceived and launched new conference centered on data and analytics and their effect on business, technology and society. Curated programs, selected keynote speakers, hosted on-stage, chaired review committee. Generated supporting line content.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

Hosted 3,200+ attendees on stage. Curated and scheduled over 200 presentations for a large multi-track conference. Selected keynote speakers. Set marketing direction and created editorial content to aid event promotion. Managed program committee.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

Leading the development of web applications supporting the conference business.

Developed and sold the Expectnation conference management system. Delivered consulting and training on web technologies, including Ruby on Rails and the semantic web.

Programme chair for the annual XTech conference focusing on web and emerging technologies. (Was XML Europe conference in Barcelona, 2002, London, 2003 and Amsterdam, 2004.)

Nuremberg, Bavaria, De

Responsible for managing the business unit producing Pharmalicensing, the foremost online IP exchange for biopharma, and Partneringdesk, a suite of business intelligence products for the biopharma industry.

Nuremberg, Bavaria, De

Executive director with responsibility for IT infrastructure and software development. Bridgehead is a consultancy and business intelligence provider for licensing and development within the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical worlds.

Nuremberg, Bavaria, De

Non-executive Board member with responsibility for advising on IT and internet matters. Bridgehead acquired Pharmalicensing Ltd., which I had co-founded in 1998. Bridgehead's business is in life sciences consulting, licensing and education.

Sebastopol, Ca, Us

Commentator and editor focused on open source and wireless topics.

Long term contract as editor of XML.com and WebServices.XML.com. XML.com is a weekly online publication at the core of the XML developer community.

Co-founded and developed pharmalicensing.com, an intellectual property exchange for life-sciences. Now retained in a consultancy role.

London, Gb

Progressed from Software Engineer to head up PA (UK national news agency) web development. Various online firsts including Olympic coverage, election coverage, Freeserve launch, Prince Charles' web site.

Beng (Hons) – Class I, Computer Science

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