James Fredley
Founder, Chief Executive Officer at The Apache Software Foundation
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Fredley is a founder and CEO with a decade of documented experience building high-growth digital businesses and a 28-year entrepreneurial mindset, who leads Triumph Interactive to deliver measurable revenue and traffic gains for clients. He combines hands-on technical leadership—modern data stacks, custom Java platforms, and full-stack e-commerce systems—with growth marketing tactics that have driven multi-million dollar sales lifts and dramatic organic traffic increases. As an active Apache Grails PMC member and recently elected VP/Chair at the Apache Software Foundation, he bridges open-source stewardship with product-focused engineering. James has repeatedly built teams and systems from scratch (CTO/CMO roles, subscription commerce platforms) and helped scale startups to nine-figure exits. Based in Raleigh, he also invests in frontier tech companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, SpaceX), signaling a strong interest in AI and long-term platform plays.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at University of North Carolina Wilmington
English
Github Skills (96)
web-application10
grav-plugin10
grails-cache10
grails10
liquibase10
grails-plugin10
neo4j10
sql10
database-migration10
application-framework10
groovy10
hibernate10
mongodb10
object-mapping10
migration10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/grails-profiles
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Consolidated Home for Grails Profiles
Contributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 16 PRs in 3 months
jamesfredley/grails-website-test
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:26 pushes in 1 month
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