James Piechota
Software Engineer at Arweave
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolJames Piechota is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building products at the intersection of fintech, crypto, and consumer mobile. He has led teams and shipped production systems from early-stage startups to enterprise collaborations—launching PayJoy’s Boston office and PayJoy Cash in Mexico, architecting a blockchain payments prototype with MUFG at Akamai, and now contributing at Arweave. As a hands-on engineering leader and founder, he combines product-minded technical depth (Android apps, payment processors, and distributed systems) with operational experience in recruiting and scaling teams. His background spans research-driven voice tech at VocaliD to founding a Bitcoin payment startup that taught him practical market-fit lessons about adoption and shutdown management. James pairs an MBA from Rotman with a CS degree from Brown, reflecting both strategic and technical fluency. Colleagues would note he repeatedly thrives in ambiguous, cross-disciplinary problems—turning prototypes and prototypes into revenue-generating products.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Brown UniversityMBA, MBA at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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Github Skills (9)
arweave10
supercomputer9
gitbook9
proof-of-work7
heroku6
django6
python5
algorithm5
oauth4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ArweaveTeam/jiffy
Aug 2023 - Jun 2026
Fork of https://github.com/davisp/jiffy
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 10 months
ArweaveTeam/erlang-rocksdb
Jul 2024 - Jul 2025
Fork of https://gitlab.com/barrel-db/erlang-rocksdb
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR in 1 year
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