James Alexander
Senior Director, Trust & Safety Operations
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Alexander is a senior content safety and AI policy leader with 14 years of experience building global, multilingual trust & safety programs across major platforms and non-profits. He has led cross-functional teams at Twitter and Wikimedia and now directs content safety and emerging AI enforcement policy at Salesforce, specializing in scalable systems that blend machine learning, automation, and agent-driven workflows. His work spans policy design, localized operations, and high-stakes integrations—everything from modernizing rules for synthetic media and live audio to automating reporting to law enforcement databases. Notably, he doubled donor engagement for Wikimedia fundraising through a 300+ language product rollout and continues to contribute as a Wikipedia volunteer and local elections coordinator in San Francisco.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Economics, Bachelor's Degree Economics at University of Rochester
Github Skills (15)
mirror10
puppet10
mediawiki9
portal9
userscripts8
documents7
php7
crm6
suitecrm6
mediawiki-extension6
webapp5
gerrit5
wikimedia5
foundation4
dns1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jamesryanalexander/lca-tools
Dec 2013 - Oct 2016
Contributions:374 commits, 2 PRs, 67 pushes in 2 years 10 months
wikimedialegaltakedownsfoundationdepartment
jamesryanalexander/Wikimedia-contrib
Apr 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
wikimediafoundationwikipediawikiswikimedia-foundation
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