James Priyarajan is a founder and AI-driven product leader with 8+ years building and scaling applied ML, computer vision, and MLOps products across sports tech and local search. He co-founded GAMEFACE.AI—an award-winning biomechanics platform that he led from inception to acquisition by Slinger Bag—and now runs DreamStorey, a privacy-forward local AI search and conversation layer for businesses. Hands-on across ML, LLMs, backend and frontend development, James ships production systems (not demos) and has contributed to open-source projects like LAION-AI/Open-Assistant, improving text labeling, API endpoints and transaction-safe DB work. His career spans multi-city startups and engineering roles at Qualcomm and NXP, plus early ISRO collaboration, reflecting a blend of research rigor and product pragmatism. Outside work he’s a drummer and weekend footballer, bringing the same team-first energy to distributed, cross-cultural teams.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bishop Cotton Boys' School
B.E, Computer Science, B.E, Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:62 reviews, 12 commits, 21 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on backend development, specifically related to updating text labeling functionality. They introduced new web routes and made changes to the `textFlagLabels` component, indicating involvement with frontend components as well. Their contributions involved modifying API endpoints, database interactions, and data handling for the labeling feature. Furthermore, the commits included refactoring code and incorporating database transaction management.
OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so.
Contributions:33 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
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