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James Chivers

CTO at BOPA Precision Agriculture

Greater Seattle Area

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James Chivers is CTO at BOPA, an agtech startup developing autonomous rovers for farm operations, and has 27 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure, applications, and AI platforms. He previously led the AIML team responsible for the core Siri runtime engine at Apple, worked on Alexa's capabilities and developer tools at Amazon, and served in site reliability engineering at Google.

CTO at BOPA Precision Agriculture

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Ag Ventures AllianceAgLaunch AcceleratorMemphisCORI InnovationHartlandFirstMile VenturesDenver · $300K – $800K checksGreater Colorado Venture FundColorado · $250K – $500K checksLeVert VenturesDurhamREFASHIOND VenturesNew York · $25K checksService Provider CapitalVail

Co-founders at BOPA Precision Agriculture

SHSarah Hinkley
Sarah HinkleyCEO / Co-Founder
JHJaron Hinkley
Jaron HinkleyCo-Founder
BSBryan Stafford
Bryan StaffordCo-Founder

Experience

  1. BOPA- Precision AgricultureCTOcurrent2025 — present
  2. Content Creator MarketplaceFounder2023 — 2025Greater Seattle Area
  3. AppleSiri Software Engineering Manager (AIML)2018 — 2023Greater Seattle Area
  4. AmazonAlexa Software Development Manager (Experience & Devices)2017 — 2018Greater Seattle Area
  5. AmazonAlexa Software Development Manager (Alexa Skills Kit)2016 — 2017Seattle, Washington, United States
  6. GoogleAcquisitions SRE2013 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  7. GoogleCo-Founder, Building @ Google2013 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
  8. GoogleVideo SRE2012 — 2013Mountain View, California
  9. GoogleGRID SRE2011 — 2012Mountain View, California
  10. TuentiHead of Systems Operations2010 — 2011Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
  11. GoogleSRE Manager - Postini2008 — 2010Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  12. PostiniSr. Manager EMEA Operations & Tech Support2007 — 2008Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  13. PostiniEMEA Operations Manager2006 — 2007Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  14. PostiniSystem Administrator2005 — 2006Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  15. ADVFN plcSystems Team Manager2002 — 2005Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  16. Open ClusteringFounder & Technical Director2002Surrey, England, United Kingdom
  17. Psi-DomainFounder & Technical Director1999 — 2002Surrey, England, United Kingdom
  18. Reuters Group plcSoftware Engineer1998 — 1999Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Skills & more

Linux53MySQL33PHP27System Administration17Databases15Web Applications12Start-ups13Web Development14Open Source10Python11Subversion6Software Engineering12
+12 moreGitData CenterApacheMobile DevicesBashScalabilityShell ScriptingSoftware DevelopmentUnixRESTOperating SystemsHTML

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Who is James Chivers?
James Chivers is CTO at BOPA, an agtech startup developing autonomous rovers for farm operations, and has 27 years of experience building and scaling infrastructure, applications, and AI platforms. He previously led the AIML team responsible for the core Siri runtime engine at Apple, worked on Alexa's capabilities and developer tools at Amazon, and served in site reliability engineering at Google.
Where does James Chivers work?
James Chivers is CTO at BOPA Precision Agriculture.
Where did James Chivers go to school?
James Chivers studied at City St George’s, University of London (Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering); East Surrey College (BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Microelectronics).

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