James Lopez
Cofounder & Business Development Lead at Mutant Labs
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Lopez is a founder and former software engineer with nine years of experience building product-led startups and developer-grade tooling from Boulder, Colorado. He has led business development and go-to-market for Web3 initiatives—co-creating influential protocols like SPL-404 and co-authoring MPL-404 that shaped Solana’s hybrid infrastructure—while also founding consumer-focused ventures such as Just Ape Studios and JKIndex.io. His background in test engineering at Kraken and Rev.com grounds his product work in reliable automation, quality processes, and scalable CI/CD practices. James combines technical fluency across backend, QA automation, and frontend development with a knack for negotiating strategic partnerships and closing multi-six-figure deals. Notably, he translated grading uncertainty into a new market layer at JKIndex, blending data science, marketplace analytics, and collector insights to reduce friction in collectibles trading.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Texas State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Study Abroad, Bachelor’s Degree, Study Abroad at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaBachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at California State University, Chico
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (13)
solana10
anchor10
metaplex10
token-list10
nft8
js6
aws6
foundation5
terraform5
blockchain5
ethereum5
rust5
typescript4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CS3398-Rust-Buckets/S2017
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 22 comments, 20 issues in 1 year 3 months
J-a-m-e-s-o-n/github-cdn
Oct 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:5 pushes in 6 months
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