James Wu
Co-Founder, CTO at Centauri AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Wu is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 14 years building scalable e-commerce and web infrastructure, now serving as Co‑Founder and CTO of Centauri AI in San Francisco. He progressed from frontend intern to principal SRE and infrastructure lead at Minted and Tubi, combining hands‑on coding with systems architecture and process automation. James excels at deploying reliable, high‑performance systems at scale, with deep experience in observability, databases, and performance engineering. A UC Berkeley computer science alumnus and Y Combinator participant, he pairs startup grit with product-focused technical leadership. Not obvious from his terse GitHub bio, he still prefers to be in the codebase—writing pragmatic solutions that bridge infrastructure and application layers.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyY CombinatorAmador Valley High
English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (57)
similarity-search10
search-engine10
image-search10
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data-format10
semantic-search10
recommender-system10
nearest-neighbor-search10
spatial9
python9
vector-database9
pipeline9
bioinformatics9
random-access9
versioning9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jameswu1991/cs184
Sep 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:91 commits in 2 months
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