James Kaplan
CEO Co-Founder at MeetKai Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kaplan is the CEO and co-founder of MeetKai, an AI and metaverse company in Los Angeles, bringing ten years of product and engineering experience. He combines executive leadership with hands-on development—on GitHub (jekirl) he contributed to the rust-decimal library by improving formatting, addressing precision edge cases, adding serialization/deserialization, and benchmarking performance. Those contributions reveal a practical focus on correctness and performance in numeric systems, valuable for AI and finance-adjacent applications. A Harvey Mudd-educated technologist, he blends academic rigor with startup pragmatism to move research-level ideas into shipped products. He’s known for integrating product vision with low-level implementation detail to build robust, performant systems.
11 years of coding experience
Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (13)
serialization10
formatting10
deserialization10
decimal-numbers10
decimals10
serializable10
rust10
serializer10
decimal10
text-formatting10
testing10
benchmarking9
benchmark9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
paupino/rust-decimal
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Decimal number implementation written in pure Rust suitable for financial and fixed-precision calculations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on implementing and improving the formatting functionality of the decimal number implementation. Their contributions involved adding new formatting options and fixing edge cases related to precision and scale. They also integrated changes from other branches and added benchmarks comparing the performance of this implementation to another similar library. Furthermore, the user implemented and tested serialization/deserialization for the Decimal struct.
financialcalculationsrustpure-rustprecision
jekirl/starlette-api
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Starlette layer to add API functionalities
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 month
apiphpstarlette
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