James Punnett
Founder at MotorShare
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Punnett is a serial founder and product-focused technologist with 13 years of experience building consumer-facing platforms and marketplaces from New Zealand. He blends hands-on architecture and programming skills with business leadership, having launched LifeDirect (exited to Trade Me), co-created The Property Crowd, and now runs Partbnb and MotorShare. His current ventures apply fintech-style structuring to real assets—fractional holiday property ownership for accredited US investors and a private exotic car club—demonstrating a knack for turning niche communities into scalable subscription businesses. Former roles across lending and insurance technology underline deep domain expertise in regulated, customer-facing financial products. Based in Auckland, he describes himself as “architect by day, programmer by night,” signaling ongoing technical involvement rather than purely executive oversight. Ambitious yet pragmatic, he combines product-led growth with a history of exits and advisory roles in peer-to-peer finance.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Massey University
Github Skills (14)
command-line-tool8
structured-concurrency8
searching7
ack6
rds5
text-search4
route534
aws4
grep4
go3
proxy3
http3
ag3
pcre3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jppunnett/guides
Jul 2013 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 6 years 4 months
jppunnett/dboom
Nov 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:74 commits, 47 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years
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