Ezra James

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Founder & CEO, Magnet Care - consumer brands · marketing · supply chain

Magnet Care
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
8+ years experience
Western University
English
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Overview

I started Magnet Care to fix D2C food brands for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Took Magnet Care from zero to $3 million ARR. Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.

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Skills
marketingconsumer brandssupply chain

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Jan 2024 - Present
    Magnet Care · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Signed 244 paying customers, 22 of them enterprises.
    • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2021 - Sep 2023
    Shopify · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Grew the infrastructure team from 3 to 29 engineers.
    • Moved 62% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
    Google · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Led the migration of 12 services to consumer brands.
    • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 882ms to 163ms.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
    Telus · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Wrote the supply chain service that now handles 23 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. Western University
    HBA, Business Administration
    2013 - 2017

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