About us

Jamie is a co-founder and the CEO of Convex.

Prior to Convex, Jamie was a Senior Engineering Director at Dropbox, leading the Business Platform and the Storage / Databases groups. Earlier in his tenure at Dropbox, Jamie was a Principal Engineer, launching several significant projects in synchronization and storage with many of the Convex team members. Over ten years before Dropbox, Jamie held leadership positions at several startups, most recently as the Head of Engineering at Bump, a former top-10 mobile app acquired by Google in 2013.

Jamie brings to Convex an enduring obsession with databases, networking, and protocols. Over the course of his career, he’s created dozens of related open-source projects, collectively with thousands of GitHub stars and heavy industry use.

James is CTO/Cofounder at Convex which means he’s accountable for technical decision-making whenever he’s not thinking about how many more plants we should get for the office. He’s most passionate about simple elegant solutions to complex problems.

Before Convex James was Senior Principal Engineer at Dropbox and tech lead on a bunch of projects including building their multi-exabyte geo-distributed storage system and migrating Dropbox off of S3, multi-homing Dropbox infra, and building database systems that handle millions of queries per second. His favorite part of the job was mentoring junior folks who ended up being senior folks, and spending time with smart, friendly, highly-motivated people.

James grew up in Sydney, spent far too much time in school, and eventually received a PhD at MIT specializing in large-scale distributed transaction processing and consensus protocols. In his spare time he likes building stuff and fixing motorcycles. Rumor has it he has a cover band with Jamie.

Nipunn is a software engineer at Convex, where he loves figuring out how to make the developer experience simple, magical, and indispensably useful for customers.

Before Convex, Nipunn was at Dropbox for 8 years. In his time, he was a technical lead on desktop client sync engine and developer infrastructure efforts. He made many lifelong friends along the way and plans to repeat that process again.

Nipunn enjoys spending time with his dog Pepper, bowling, finding exceptional quality noodles, sipping tea, trying new craft beer, Ultimate Frisbee, bowling, filing bugs to open source projects, and subsequently fixing them.

Emma is a software engineer at Convex working primarily on Convex's backend services.

Before joining Convex in February 2022, they worked on data storage at Commure, a healthcare tech startup. They love building tools that empower developers and hope that one day their job is obsolete, replaced by a backend-as-a-service like Convex.

Outside of work, Emma can be found swimming in the bay, cycling around town, or reading on BART.

Ian leads API development at Convex, building libraries, Components and designing abstractions to help developers build with confidence and joy.

He previously freelanced for The New York Times, led an infra-leaning backend team at Dropbox, consulted as a mechanical engineer for MindTribe, and was an iOS engineer before the term "iOS" existed.

He enjoys creative problem solving.

Jordan is a software engineer at Convex. Before Convex, he studied at Harvey Mudd College. While in school, he worked on backend infrastructure at various companies including Netflix and Asana. He obsesses over making complex things simple and brings a passion for programming languages.

When he’s not coding, he spends most of his time traveling, snowboarding, playing basketball, reading, and hanging out with his friends. He also likes to dabble a bit in poker.

Wayne is the Head of Community and Events at Convex with the Developer Experience team.

Previous to Convex, Wayne has led the community at early-stage startups and organized tech conferences around the world.

Outside of his professional life, Wayne is passionate about blending photography with his love for motorcycle adventures.

Hailing from beautiful Switzerland, Nicolas works as a software engineer at Convex.

He released his first app on the App Store when he was 13, and studied computer science at EPFL and Carnegie Mellon. At Convex, he strives to give developers the tools they need to create apps seamlessly.

He enjoys taking transit, appreciating great design, and getting lost on Wikipedia.

Christina joins us as our fractional Head of Finance and People at Convex.

Prior to Convex, Christina built and scaled the accounting and finance teams at Amplitude as their first accounting hire and laid the foundation for their direct listing in 2021. Most recently, Christina was the VP of People at Amplitude, overseeing the Global People function in 2022. Before Amplitude, Christina worked at various VC and Private Equity backed startups in San Francisco.

When she’s not immersed in spreadsheets or creating dashboards, Christina enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, and can often be found at your local San Francisco playground.

Senior Software Developer and Co-Founder of Gangbusters, Michael brings 17+ years of experience in software engineering, architecture, and technical leadership. Passionate about building scalable systems and solving complex problems, he has delivered high-impact products to millions of users.

Michael specializes in TypeScript, ReactJS, Node.js, BabylonJS, and Unity, with a strong focus on leveraging cloud infrastructure like Fly.io, AWS, and Google Cloud.

Beyond coding, he mentors engineering teams, fosters innovation, and chronicles his technical journey on his 20-year-old blog, mikecann.co.uk.

Outside of work, Michael enjoys kite surfing, free diving, squash, and pickleball, embracing adventure and competition in both his professional and personal life.

Christian likes to build things, especially with computer technology. He enjoys working at every layer in the tech stack, from slick UIs to clean APIs to client/server protocols to efficient and reliable backends.

Prior to joining Convex, he worked on web and backend software for multiple startups, helped build and grow Google Photos for Android to 1B+ users, launched the YouTube Create mobile video editor, helped bring Project Genie to life with Google Labs and has made various contributions to open source software.

Outside of work, he'll be spending time with his family, getting his hands dirty in the garden, messing around on guitar/bass/drums and delving into world history (books, podcasts, games, etc).

Reece is a software engineer at Convex. Before joining, she studied computer science at MIT and worked on full-stack development at various startups and large companies. She is passionate about good user experience design!

Outside of work, she enjoys electronic music production, going to hyperpop shows, and learning to surf.

Scout is the Office Manager at Convex. Her background includes a mix of administrative and development roles across the film and documentary industry in New York City. Scout has curated live film screenings dedicated to experimental/DIY work, and has directed her own independent short films.

Outside of work Scout enjoys Jungian dream analysis, aimless walks, miniature replicas of larger objects, and performing with her improv team here in SF.

Luke is Head of Ops at Convex. This means he wears a lot of hats, but spends most of his time figuring out how to better support Convex's customers and grow the business.

Prior to Convex, Luke ran sales ops at Heroku, was COO at Clearbit, co-founder of Evergrow, and VP of GTM at Fly.io.

When he's not scaling companies, you might find Luke swimming in the Bay, hanging out with his Goldendoodles (Justice and Sutro), or vibe coding home automation projects nobody asked for.

Seth is Head of AI Ergonomics at Convex.

He built the first version of Google Photos and founded Hello Wonder, a venture-backed company later acquired by Noggin. His work cuts across front-end, backend, hardware, and AI, with a focus on making complex experiences feel magically simple and systems run impossibly fast.

A TED Fellow with a degree in Wonder from MIT, Seth is a magician and father of five who brings creativity and rigor to building products people love to use. He has fooled Penn & Teller on TV, and at Convex he is focused on keeping humans at the center of the AI era so each leap in capability expands agency for this generation and the next.

Tony is a software engineer at Convex, where he loves building infrastructure that makes developers' lives easier.

His career has taken him from particle physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider to radar simulations to high-frequency trading infrastructure to Dropbox's sync engine serving millions of users. He's got a track record of jumping into complex distributed systems and making them better.

Tony is passionate about programming languages and loves to try to make simple solutions to complex problems.

When he's not coding, Tony is usually biking around San Francisco on his cargo bike with his kids, playing Minecraft with his son, spending way too much time optimizing factories in Factorio, or diving for saves as a goalkeeper.

David is a product lead at Convex.

Before joining, he was the cofounder and CTO of a YC startup and worked on the Kotlin language and Android developer experience at Google. Before working in tech, he started his career as a consultant at Bain. He enjoys programming languages, simple UX, and docs that could have been meetings.

Outside of work, he likes reading memoirs, hiking, camping, cooking vegetarian food, scuba diving, and skiing.

Bart is the General Counsel at Convex.

Prior to Convex, Bart was the Chief Legal Officer at Dropbox, where he helped guide the company from a Series B startup through IPO and beyond.

Before Dropbox, Bart worked in the Internet Litigation & Strategy practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Bart enjoys traveling with his family, summiting peaks, flopping flushes, and catching music shows.

Alon leads engineering at Convex. Before that, he worked at WorkOS, Quip/Salesforce, Dropbox, and Google, building products, developer platforms, and engineering teams. He likes solving hard problems with simple solutions and building teams of people who enjoy working together.

Alon lives in San Francisco with his wife and three kids. Outside of work, he enjoys running, live music, and woodworking projects that take longer than expected.