Jim Cai
Engineering Manager at Coinbase
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Cai is an engineering manager and former startup cofounder with 11 years of experience building product-focused teams and scalable systems across startups and tech companies. With a strong technical foundation (Berkeley AB in Applied Math & Economics, Stanford MS in CS) he’s led engineering at a Series A startup, served as CTO of Slyce.io, and now manages teams at Coinbase, blending hands-on engineering with product and organizational leadership. He excels at accelerating growing-stage engineering organizations, translating ambiguous product needs into pragmatic technical roadmaps, and mentoring engineers through rapid scaling. Based in San Francisco, he’s driven by efficiency gains and enjoys tackling hard problems alongside talented teammates—bringing an uncommon mix of research experience, founder grit, and large-company operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Applied Mathematics, Economics, B.A., Applied Mathematics, Economics at University of California, BerkeleyM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (13)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
caijim/testingCourseExport
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
mog96/XCHATDev
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:28 PRs, 43 pushes, 7 branches in 13 days
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