James Grafton
Angel Investor at Meta
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJames Grafton is an engineering executive and angel investor based in Austin with 15+ years leading and scaling distributed engineering organizations across the US, EU and Japan. He has built and rebuilt high-performing leadership teams at companies ranging from IBM and Google to Zwift and Meta, growing orgs to 120+ FTE and driving measurable quality gains (e.g., crash rates reduced from 4% to 0.7%). His domain expertise spans mobile, web and AAA gaming, and he’s led partner and developer ecosystems for platform launches such as Stadia and Chromecast. As an operator he blends product, developer relations and technical delivery, introducing practices like feature flags, post-mortems, and improved observability to reduce escaped issues. An active angel and advisor, he backs early-stage startups across productivity and climate tech while maintaining hands-on involvement in platform and partner engineering. Colleagues describe him as a builder of both systems and leaders who turns large, complex orgs into focused delivery engines.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
1st CSAI, 1st CSAI at University of SussexHampton School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
twitter-api10
custom-receiver10
twitter9
asteroids9
youtube7
receiver7
python7
embedded6
google-cloud-datastore2
url-shortener2
nodejs2
meteor2
php2
google-cast1
flysystem1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jrgrafton/shortly
Dec 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:41 commits in 1 month
shortenernodejsmeteorurl-shortener
jrgrafton/tweet-debate
Jul 2016 - Nov 2021
Tweet Debate
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
debatetwitter
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