James O'brien
Co-Founder COO at Ducky
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames O'brien is a founder and operator with a decade of experience building companies at the intersection of finance, crypto, and developer tooling. As Co-Founder and COO of Ducky he designs information-retrieval infrastructure tailored for LLMs, drawing on prior leadership roles shaping crypto investment products and operations at Valkyrie and Alto/AltoIRA. He blends product, regulatory-savvy business development and hands-on engineering sensibilities—bringing alternatives like digital securities and regulated crowdfunding into retirement and investment platforms. Based in Nashville, he pairs startup grit (including founding a consumer brand) with a persistent open-source developer interest, which informs his practical approach to scaling systems and reducing LLM hallucinations. Notably, his career arc reflects a recurring focus on unlocking new capital flows through product integrations and compliance-aware innovation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
HS Degree, HS Degree at Deerfield AcademyBachelor of Arts and Sciences, Sociology, Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, Sociology at Colby College
Spanish
Github Skills (50)
musicbrainz10
python10
artwork10
organizer10
spotify10
music10
cli10
mp39
skip9
flac9
album-art9
audio9
player9
sunset9
gnome-terminal8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dvcky/dvcky.github.io
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
My GitHub website.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1754 pushes in 7 months
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dvcky/dvcky
Oct 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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