James Cowling

Founder

Co-founder and CTO of Convex. Former Senior Principal Engineer at Dropbox (built multi-exabyte geo-distributed storage). PhD from MIT in distributed transaction processing under Barbara Liskov.

Overview

Companies
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Roles

Companies

1 company
Convex $54M
Private

Convex is an open-source reactive backend-as-a-service platform that provides a real-time database, serverless functions, and client SDKs for building live-updating web and mobile apps. The platform integrates a TypeScript-based document store and function runtime for queries and mutations. Convex went open source in March 2024.

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