Summary
James Murdza is a multidisciplinary engineer and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area who blends aerospace-rooted systems thinking with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack, cloud, and AI systems. He runs an apprenticeship-driven training program that places emerging engineers into paid roles via one-on-one mentorship and real startup projects, and has partnered directly with early-stage Bay Area startups to scale engineering teams. As co-founder of GitWit he built an NLP-driven developer assistant that helped generate over 1,000 GitHub repositories, demonstrating a knack for practical generative-agent tooling. His background includes building cloud sandboxes and specialized AI agents, plus prior leadership managing a 30-person VTOL aircraft program, showing he thrives at the intersection of hardware, software, and people. Comfortable teaching bootcamps and designing curricula, he helps companies hire and grow AI engineering talent while coaching developers through career transitions. Reachable through his portfolio and GitHub, he combines mentorship, product-minded engineering, and an emphasis on apprenticeship as a talent engine.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Aerospace Engineering, BSc Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology
Minor in Sustainable Development, Minor in Sustainable Development at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, German, French