James Scaur
Developer Relations Engineer
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Scaur is a Bitcoin-focused Developer Relations Engineer from New Zealand with 11 years of hands-on experience building crypto infrastructure, payments, and product integrations. He’s a practical founder-engineer who has launched startups and tools (including the first batch-search block explorer) and helped scale crypto products across markets from Brazil to AU/NZ. James has engineered native Bitcoin flows, cross-chain stablecoin rails, and enterprise integrations—shipping features like automatic BTC→USDC swaps, multi-network USDT payouts, and direct deposit split payments. He combines full-stack delivery and DevOps with product-minded work on consumer-facing systems such as kiosk payments and Ordinal/NFT marketplaces. Known for turning operational pain points into shipped tooling, he also brings compliance and localization experience from building regulated crypto services and international integrations.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Young Enterprise Scheme, Young Enterprise Scheme at Young Enterprise (New Zealand)Young Enterprise - Company of the Year Challenge, Young Enterprise - Company of the Year Challenge at JA WorldwideHHX, Fonden for Entreprenørskab - Company Programme, HHX, Fonden for Entreprenørskab - Company Programme at Herningsholm Erhvervsskole & GymnasierFellow | LF8 Cohort, Fellow | LF8 Cohort at Latitud
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (60)
trezor10
backend10
plugin9
encrypt9
javascript9
security9
bitcoin9
encryption9
wallet8
crypto8
api8
privacy8
blockchain8
java8
chain8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
litecoinlabs/market
Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
Open-source, trustless marketplace for litecoin NFTs/ordinals/inscriptions. Forked from https://github.com/orenyomtov/openordex
Contributions:25 PRs, 71 pushes, 35 branches in 3 months
jamesscaur/liteordex
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
Fork of https://github.com/orenyomtov/openordex for litecoin enjoyoors
Contributions:7 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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