James King is a hands-on technical co-founder and CTO with 12 years of software experience, currently leading product and engineering at Involve Education after a decade building and scaling music-tech startup Encore Musicians. Trained with an MEng in Computer Science from Cambridge, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with product intuition, routinely jumping into code, architecture and team building. His career spans early-stage bootstrapping, accelerator experience at Entrepreneur First, and practical engineering roles where he delivered commercial modelling tools and consumer web products. Based in London, he thrives on hard problems that bridge product, data and user experience, and brings the pragmatic discipline of someone who has taken ideas from prototype through operational delivery.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels, A-Levels at Hills Road Sixth Form College
MEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at University of Cambridge
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James King - Co-founder & CTO at Involve Education