Daniel James
Exploring at Something new
England, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDaniel James is a product and strategy leader with 15 years’ experience building AI-driven products and GTM motion in regulated markets across fintech, caretech and proptech. He has founded and scaled startups (Canopy Life, ReloShare) to seven-figure ARR pipelines and managed multi-billion dollar transaction volumes and algorithmic trading prototypes at major banks, blending founder grit with institution-grade execution. Hands-on in ML, NLP and computer vision, he has deployed solutions used by thousands of users, built payments and card systems, and runs rapid design sprints to align stakeholders in compliance-heavy environments. As an advisor and mentor (Techstars, Contrary Labs), he helps startups apply agentic and generative AI to validate ICPs and automate scalable outreach. He’s also an active open-source back-end contributor to notable projects like Sourcefabric’s Airtime and Newscoop, reflecting a practical engineering background alongside his product leadership. Based between the UK and US, he’s currently exploring novel agentic-AI applications for financial services and care.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Kellogg School of ManagementBSc, Economics & Politics, BSc, Economics & Politics at University of Bristol
French, German
Github Skills (24)
python10
scripting10
bash10
debian-packaging10
script10
php10
sh10
shell10
cicd9
django9
internationalization9
packaging9
package9
rpm9
packager9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
booktype/Booktype
Sep 2012 - Aug 2018
Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:225 commits, 141 PRs, 72 comments in 6 years
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily focused on updating and maintaining the build and deployment processes for the Booktype project. Their commits include scripts for generating nightly snapshots, packaging updates, and Debian/Ubuntu packaging updates. The user also contributed to the project by adding Portuguese, French and other languages to the list of languages and updating a broken link to the user manual. These changes indicate a focus on both back-end system management and project maintainability.
ebookspythondjangoformattedpdf
sourcefabric/airtime
Oct 2010 - Mar 2015
Airtime is Sourcefabric’s open source radio software for scheduling and remote station management. Airtime provides a reliable audio playout with sub-second precision, an improved interface with modern usability features, advanced user management supporting roles and a Google-style calendar to schedule and move shows and playlists.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:173 commits, 9 PRs, 10 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily worked on fixing outdated references and merging branches from a related project ("Campcaster"). Their commits indicate changes to Python scripts and PHP configuration files, suggesting contributions to the application's core functionality. Further changes include updates to upgrade scripts, and the implementation of new API features.
improvedgoogle-stylescheduleuser-managementprecision
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