James Crosswell
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
🤩
RockstarJames Crosswell is a pragmatic startup builder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience in bootstrapping early-stage ideas and scaling the ones that gain traction. He specializes in hands-on product inception through to early marketing, wearing engineering, design, and leadership hats as needed to validate hypotheses quickly. Having led the hiring and management of 20+ cross-functional teams—including senior managers—he knows how to turn validated concepts into high-performing organizations. His experience spans both failed and successfully acquired startups, giving him rare insight into what determines long-term viability. Based in Auckland, he blends entrepreneurial grit with practical execution, able to move from prototype to repeatable growth while shaping durable teams and processes. Despite a focus on building, he remains comfortable stepping outside pure engineering to shape strategy, go-to-market experiments, and culture.
11 years of coding experience
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
754reputation
118kreached
32answers
13questions
Github Skills (189)
sentry10
python10
monitoring10
error-logging10
logback10
django10
dotnet10
sdk10
monitor10
mach-o10
apm10
performance-monitoring10
documentation10
crashpad10
crash-reports10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jamescrosswell/jamescrosswell.github.io
Apr 2016 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes in 7 years
jamescrosswell/CommandRouting
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 73 pushes in 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.