James Whelton
Co-Founder at Ashoka
Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Whelton is an Irish full-stack software developer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building products, teams, and communities. As Co-Founder of CoderDojo and a long-time governance member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, he blends technical craftsmanship with a passion for education and social impact. He has led engineering and product efforts across startups and international markets—from CTO roles in the UAE to founding and exiting ventures—bringing hands-on development, DevOps, and growth-focused practices to each organization. James founded Conjure to explore behavior change through data and automation, demonstrating an interest in applying engineering to personal productivity and wellbeing. Comfortable shipping across the stack, he’s as likely to champion developer workflows and CI/CD as he is to mentor future technologists. Known for “enjoying the adventure,” he pairs entrepreneurial curiosity with repeatable, delivery-oriented leadership.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Presentation Brothers College Cork
English
Github Skills (24)
quantified-self10
wearables10
marketplace9
multi-tenant9
rest-api8
rest8
ecommerce8
utility7
open-source6
typescript6
nextjs6
solidus5
localization5
ckeditor5
static-page4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Whelton/whelton.github.com
Jul 2014 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 issue in 4 years 5 months
Whelton/react-native-zstd
Feb 2024 - Aug 2025
ZSTD bindings for React Native
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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