Summary
James Mattis is a multidisciplinary founder and engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience building mechanical products and wearable software, having launched some of the earliest iPhone, Apple Watch, and Pebble apps and shipping multiple consumer hardware designs. Trained at UC Berkeley and MIT, he blends deep mechanical engineering expertise (GD&T, injection molding, opto-mechanics) with real-time GPS and activity-data software systems he architected at World Champ Tech. He has supported global product and media engineering needs at Apple, developed high-performance Bluetooth and cloud platforms for successful Kickstarter hardware, and taught product design at top universities. An accomplished pro-am cyclist ranked in the U.S. top 10 and a technical advisor to elite athletes, he brings unique domain knowledge in aerodynamics and applied exercise physiology that informs his product decisions. Known for shipping complete solutions—from UI and icon design to firmware and cloud services—he excels at turning cross-disciplinary curiosity into tightly integrated products.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics at University of California, Berkeley
Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Student Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Student Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Certificate Management of Technology, Certificate Management of Technology at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business