James Margatan
Founder at AI Functions (AIFns)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Margatan is a serial founder and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building AI-driven platforms, developer tooling, and privacy-preserving data products from San Francisco. He now leads AI Functions, a platform that converts natural-language problem statements into versioned, observable AI functions, after founding startups that tackled workforce rostering at scale and zero-party data for compliant marketing. Earlier roles at LinkedIn and large crypto exchanges paired hands-on engineering—designing real-time pipelines and novel key-sharded wallets—with people leadership and org design for 200+ engineers. He combines deep systems thinking (constraint programming, schema-driven APIs, observability) with a founder’s appetite for high-risk pivots and practical cryptography learned from first principles. Notably, he declined a tenured CTO offer and YC to keep pursuing product-market fit across ambitious infrastructure bets.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of MinnesotaMaster's Degree, Software Engineering, Data Science, Master's Degree, Software Engineering, Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Indonesian, Chinese
Github Skills (35)
tabs-management8
cloudflare-dns8
wan8
cloudflare-api8
mikrotik8
ipmi8
ip-address7
dyndns7
extensible6
tab-management6
dns6
chrome-extension6
firefox-addon6
fuzzy6
contenteditable6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jmargatan/site-jmargatan.com
Dec 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:12 pushes in 5 years
jmargatan/cloudflare-ddns-updater
Aug 2018 - Sep 2020
Periodically checks the WAN IP address of this device by calling myip.dnsomatic.com and submit the change to the provided Cloudflare zone and DNS record, if necessary.
Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 1 month
callingsubmitcloudflare-zonecloudflare-workersdns
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