Jim Downing
CPTO at Cyclops Workout
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJim Downing is a seasoned technology CxO with 17 years of experience building AI/ML-enabled products, cloud-native architectures and data-driven mobile/SaaS platforms from research to market. As CPTO at Cyclops Workout he leads product and engineering for wireless load-sensing fitness solutions, while advising deeptech and sustainability-focused startups on scaling, organisational health and tech transfer. Previously he grew Metail’s tech organisation from a handful to 35 engineers, commercialised computer-vision R&D into B2B products, and orchestrated strategic divestments and pivots toward generative AI. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he has a Cambridge MEng and a track record securing public innovation funding and translating university research into patents and products. Pragmatic about when to invest in emerging tech, he combines hands-on engineering instincts with board-level strategy and a long history of applied open-source and standards work in research software.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MEng(hons) Fluids mechanics structures, MEng(hons) Fluids mechanics structures at University of CambridgeBradford Grammar School
Chinese, French
Stackoverflow
1,491reputation
124kreached
27answers
14questions
Github Skills (34)
database6
react6
geometric6
content-length6
sql6
http6
cluster-computing6
chunked-encoding6
bezier6
java6
jakartaee6
draw6
converter5
hugo-theme4
hugo4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jimdowning/onlinewardleymaps
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
OnlineWardleyMaps.com - Draw Wardley Maps in seconds using this free online tool
Contributions:3 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
drawmapwardley-mapsonline-toolwardley
jimdowning/clj-slack-demo
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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