James Cropcho
Consulting Software Developer at Flipkick of New York Limited Liability Company
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJames Cropcho is a consulting software developer and serial founder with 14 years of experience building, shipping, and running finance-grade software from New York. He blends hands-on backend and database engineering—evidenced by his long-running stewardship of the open-source MongoDB schema analyzer Variety—with leadership roles as CTO, founding principal, and founding partner across fintech, forensics, and startup studios. James designs pragmatic APIs and data-driven systems (recently a JSON‑RPC API) and has taught graduate courses and workshops that bridge open data, visualization, and web development. He advises and speaks publicly on engineering best practices, and his work routinely spans production operations, incident-ready architectures, and analytics for virtual asset forensics. Comfortable moving between code, product, and investor conversations, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with quantitative training from Columbia. An improv-trained communicator, he brings clarity and adaptability to technical leadership and teaching.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Improv 101 Improv Comedy, Improv 101 Improv Comedy at The Upright Citizens Brigade Improvisational and Sketch Comedy Training CenterPresenting Data and Information: A one-day course taught by Edward TufteQuantitative Studies in Finance, Quantitative Studies in Finance at Columbia University
English, German
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Github Skills (17)
hadoop-mapreduce10
javascript10
nosql10
mongod10
mapreduce10
mongodb-database10
mongoos10
mongoid10
mongodb10
data-engineer8
multiline6
http-patch6
ruby-on-rails6
backbonejs6
ruby6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
variety/variety
Mar 2012 - Dec 2022
Variety: a MongoDB Schema Analyzer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:113 commits, 38 PRs, 33 pushes in 10 years 10 months
Contributions summary:James primarily worked on developing and refining the MongoDB schema analysis tool. They added core functionality in JavaScript to analyze data schemas, including functions for mapping and reducing data structures. The contributions also involved optimizing the tool's efficiency and improving the overall analysis process. The user also focused on improving the tool's output by displaying the collected results.
schema-analyzernosqldata-sciencemongojavascript
variety/variety-cli
Feb 2016 - Nov 2022
Command line interface for Variety - Schema Analyzer for MongoDB
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 6 years 10 months
schema-analyzercommand-line-interfacevarietyanalyzermongodb
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