James Weir
COO & Co-Founder at Moonshot Labs
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Weir is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 12+ years of experience building and scaling SaaS, cloud and server infrastructure, now focused on Web3 platforms as COO & Co-Founder of Paris-based Moonshot Labs and Stand with Founders. He co-founded a successful startup in 2008 that was acquired by Fujitsu in 2015 and combines deep OS and middleware expertise with business-savvy technical strategy—regularly applying Wardley Mapping and Platform Design principles. Known for pragmatic, highly organized execution and strong communication, he moves fluidly between hands-on architecture and company-level decision making. His background spans enterprise roles at Sun Microsystems and defense systems work, which underpins a disciplined approach to distributed systems and product-first incubation. An uncommon strength is translating low-level engineering tradeoffs into market-facing product choices, accelerating early-stage teams from prototype to viable company.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Buckhaven High SchoolHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
English, French
Github Skills (22)
appcenter10
aws9
cli9
command-line-tool9
restructuredtext8
sphinx8
sphinx-extension8
infrastructure8
markdown8
devops8
ios7
dynamodb7
documentation-generator7
python7
orchestration7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
usharesoft/hammr
May 2014 - Jan 2018
Command-line tool for building consistent and repeatable machine images for multiple cloud platforms
Contributions:49 commits, 30 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 years 8 months
command-line-toolorchestrationrepeatabledevopsplatforms
jgweir/appcenter-docs
Feb 2016 - Dec 2018
UForge AppCenter and UForge Marketplace documentation
Contributions:212 pushes, 74 branches in 2 years 9 months
marketplaceappcenter
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