James Spoor
Founder at Widgens
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJames Spoor is a three-time venture-backed founder and founder of Octopipe (YC S24), building open-source data engineering tooling that lets full-stack developers ship scalable pipelines in minutes rather than months. With six years of software experience and technical leadership roles including Head of Engineering at HockeyStack and senior engineering at Snyk, he blends product-minded engineering with security and developer productivity expertise. He contributes to prominent open-source security tooling (notably Snyk CLI enhancements like SARIF support and analytics) and focuses on simplifying infrastructure so teams spend more time innovating. Based in Zurich, James has a track record of launching startups at the intersection of data, AI, and developer tools, and an unconventional background that ranges from industrial abseiling to recruitment and e‑commerce, which informs his pragmatic, hands-on approach to building durable developer platforms.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorFull Stack Software Engineering, Full Stack Software Engineering at Constructor NexademyPonteland Community High School
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Github Skills (7)
snyk10
vulnerabilities10
security10
testing9
test-automation9
javascript9
sarif8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 17 commits, 23 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:James's commits primarily focus on enhancing the security scanning capabilities of the Snyk CLI tool. They added support for SARIF output, integrated analytics for security scan results, and updated the code client to incorporate new security rule filtering. Further contributions included fixing proxy configurations for HTTPS connections, and the addition of tests to validate code scanning functionality.
monitorssarifmonitorsecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
j-sp4/shields
Jul 2020 - Aug 2023
Concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format
Contributions:10 PRs, 19 pushes, 20 branches in 3 years 2 months
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