James Wilson
Chief Technology Officer at Blockbytes LLC
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolJames Wilson is a technology leader and founder with nine years of experience building products and teams at the intersection of gaming, community-driven content, and platform innovation. As CTO of Celbux and CEO of Blockbytes, he has moved from hands-on engineering to strategic leadership, creating economies and studios that empower creators on platforms like the Minecraft Marketplace. His early work producing resource packs and datapacks for widely used projects such as Vanilla Tweaks and the Hermitcraft series gives him rare product-market insight into community engagement and discoverability. Based in Pretoria and grounded in a Computer Science degree from the University of Cape Town, he blends entrepreneurial grit with practical engineering across frontend, tooling, and game-focused ecosystems. Notably, he leverages creator-first product thinking—born from content production—to inform technical roadmaps that drive adoption and retention.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Cape Town
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Github Skills (41)
testing9
minecraft9
map-editor9
rest-api8
postman8
api-testing8
addon8
openapi8
http-client8
ide8
graphql-client8
api-client8
converter8
git7
javascript7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MSpaceDev/HermitcraftDatapacks
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:64 commits, 28 pushes in 10 months
MSpaceDev/MonsterTotems
Dec 2017 - Nov 2021
A Minecraft mod that adds unique totems into the game, based on mobs and other functions.
Contributions:1 PR, 36 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
minecraftfabricmodmobsfabricmc
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