James Florentino is a founder and seasoned builder with 14 years of hands-on experience creating web and blockchain products since the early days of the internet. An early bitcoin adopter and founder of the Philippines' first bitcoin exchange, he scaled BuyBitcoin.ph to acquisition and has since focused on launching and investing in decentralized web projects through Warpgate Ventures. He combines product design sensibilities with practical engineering skills—evidenced by front-end contributions like nanoScrollerJS—to ship polished user experiences. Based in Singapore, he blends operator experience and early-stage investing to support founders and craft market-ready blockchain services. James is motivated by a long-term vision of autonomous, code-governed organizations and is dedicating the next decades to building that future.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelors, Fine Arts, Bachelors, Fine Arts at Technological University of the Philippines
High school, High school at Mapua Institute of Technology
A jQuery plugin that offers a simplistic way of implementing Lion OS scrollbars.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:110 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the front-end development of the nanoScroller.js project, focusing on refining the user interface. They addressed various aspects, including fixing typos in the index file, editing meta tags for the index page, and incorporating changes related to fonts and stylesheet modifications. They also updated the README file. Their work aimed to improve both the presentation and functionality of the project's website.
Contributions:15 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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