James Jardine
Founder at Hashiverse
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Jardine is a serial founder and software engineer with eight years of recent entrepreneurial experience and a two-decade technical pedigree spanning algorithmic trading, research-grade ML, and scalable product architectures. He founded multiple ventures—Qiqqa (research management), Jamatto (micropayments), Quantisle (rapid MVPs across HFT, p2p lending, and edtech) and Codersaurs (free coding education for kids)—and is currently building Hashiverse in stealth from Amsterdam. His background blends hands-on systems design in C++, C#, Python and Java with quantitative finance expertise developed at Barclays, Merrill Lynch and Chopper Trading, plus a Cambridge PhD applying topic models and PageRank to automate reading lists. James repeatedly ships automated, self-sustaining platforms and prefers prototypes-to-scale approaches, typically building 5–10 MVPs a year to validate markets. An underappreciated strength is his habit of turning academic ideas into widely used products: Qiqqa scaled to tens of thousands of researchers without advertising and later became open source.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Mathematics of Finance, MSc, Mathematics of Finance at University of Cape TownPhD, Computer Science and Machine Learning, PhD, Computer Science and Machine Learning at University of CambridgeBSc (Hons), Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Applied Mathematics, Computer Science at University of the WitwatersrandEnglish, Latin, Afrikaans, Computer Science, Maths, Additional Maths, Physics, Chemistry, English, Latin, Afrikaans, Computer Science, Maths, Additional Maths, Physics, Chemistry at St John's College
Afrikaans, French, German, Spanish, English, Dutch, Italian
Github Skills (2)
servicenow10
windows8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
jimmejardine/gameofequilibrium
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
jimme-jamatto/miniPaint
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
javascriptimageimage-editor
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