James Stout
Lead AI Solution Architect at Optimizely
Charleston-Huntington Area United States
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Top SchoolJames Stout is a Lead AI Solution Architect with two decades of marketing technology experience and over a decade in hands-on product and presales leadership. He specializes in turning real enterprise workflows into production-ready AI agents and presales demos that drive adoption and revenue across financial services, media, insurance, and consumer goods. At Optimizely he has unified demo messaging, influenced personalization roadmaps, and built reusable presales tooling to accelerate evaluations. He blends technical depth (full-stack CMS and analytics roots) with enablement strategy, having led North American training, certifications, and partner programs. Known for grounding AI proofs-of-concept in actual site analytics and team processes, he consistently delivers bespoke automations—like campaign brief generators and compliance validators—before deals close. Based in the Charleston-Huntington area, he’s an early adopter of emerging tech trends, from AI to electric vehicles, and favors pragmatic solutions that scale in enterprise environments.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Morehead State UniversityGreenup County High School
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Github Skills (16)
optimizely9
episerver9
media-type9
content-management-system6
windows6
asp-net6
winapi6
user-generated-content6
integrations5
ugc5
cms2
alloy2
cognitive-services1
js1
episerver-commerce1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
egandalf/ContentTransferStarterKit
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 months
egandalf/eGandalf.Epi.Validation
Aug 2017 - Feb 2020
A series of attribute-based validators for Episerver Page, Block, and Media types.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 6 months
episervermedia-type
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