James Szklarz
Engineering Manager (AI) at Linktree
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Szklarz is an engineering leader and founder with a decade of experience building AI-driven products and developer-focused platforms. He co-founded and served as CTO of Sauce, creating an AI product impact engine trusted by Atlassian, Linktree and other enterprise customers and backed by top-tier VCs, and now leads AI engineering at Linktree. James combines hands-on software engineering experience from roles at Atlassian, TripAdvisor and security startup Haventec with product-first AI strategy, focusing on driving adoption and revenue through actionable insights. Based in Sydney, he blends startup grit and enterprise-grade delivery, often turning research-grade models into practical product features. A maker at heart, his vision for "augmented" tooling underpins work that amplifies product teams rather than replacing them.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of Western Australia
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Github Skills (10)
inject10
desktop-application9
python8
slack8
desktop7
tree-node6
switch-statement6
android6
binary-search-tree6
java6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
LostConnection/makeitdark
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Python tool to inject a dark theme into the Slack desktop application
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 24 PRs in 6 months
desktop-applicationpythonslack-desktopslackdark-theme
LostConnection/DaedalusBot
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Reinforcement learning agent using PySC2
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
pythonagentreinforcement-learningreinforcement-learning-agentpysc2
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