Summary
James Futhey is a founder and product-minded engineer with 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience building design teams, shipping production code, and turning user research into measurable growth. He founded Meeting Room 365, a SaaS product used by thousands of paid subscribers and over 100,000 end users to add meeting-room displays for Office 365, Exchange, and G Suite. His background spans startups, enterprise roles at Adobe and HBO (where he led prototyping and patent-pending interaction work), data science consulting, and military intelligence, giving him a rare mix of product, design, and analytical rigor. Comfortable both designing experiences and diving into code, he repeatedly accelerates product-market fit and operational scaling. Notably, his work blends practical engineering with a designer’s eye—shipping polished customer-facing apps that drive retention and revenue.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Design, Design at Seattle Central College
Associate of Arts (A.A.) Persian-Farsi, Associate of Arts (A.A.) Persian-Farsi at Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
YC Startup School S18 S19 & W20 Cohorts, YC Startup School S18 S19 & W20 Cohorts at Startup School Online
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Western Governors University
English, persian farsi, Japanese, afghan dari, French, Spanish, Portuguese, American Sign Language, Chinese