James Wilson
Chief Technology Officer at Celbux
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.
9 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 (35)
minecraft9
map-editor8
addon8
converter8
computercraft7
swift6
fabric6
go6
bash6
forge6
python6
gcloud6
json6
ios6
google-cloud-platform6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MSpaceDev/MinecraftSchematicTo3DModel
Nov 2018 - Feb 2021
A program that converts 16 x 16 x 16 schematics into a 3D Block Model
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 8 pushes in 2 years 4 months
minecraftschematicscomputercraft
MSpaceDev/HermitcraftDatapacks
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:64 commits, 28 pushes in 10 months
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