Jim Lisi is a serial founder and digital marketing entrepreneur with over two decades of experience building niche, ROI-driven agencies that use AI to generate exclusive leads for local service providers. Based in San Francisco, he currently runs PoolLeads.ai and OffGrid.reviews while having launched specialized ventures for divorce attorneys, window and door installers, and broader full-service marketing under SPYDER. He pairs hands-on growth marketing and agency leadership with technical chops—11 years coding experience and open-source contributions to projects like Stellar’s go monorepo and a popular trading bot—bringing backend and DevOps expertise to productize marketing automation. Jim has a track record of scaling businesses from startup to multimillion-dollar exits and enjoys translating complex tech (AI, multi-signature transaction flows, telemetry) into practical revenue outcomes. Known for field-testing tools and systems, he also founded The AI College to help professionals adopt AI strategically. Pragmatic, curious, and execution-focused, Jim blends entrepreneurial grit with engineering discipline to drive measurable growth.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Business Management, Bachelors Business Management at Nassau Community College
Kelp is a free and open-source trading bot for the Stellar DEX and 100+ centralized exchanges
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:106 reviews, 49 commits, 67 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jim made significant contributions to the project's backend and DevOps aspects. They updated the GUI backend, focusing on bot name validation and metrics tracking through amplitude. These changes involved modifying configuration files, server commands, and integrating data tracking for the CLI. The user also contributed to the volume filter, adding tests and handling buy side.
Contributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 76 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jim focused on enabling multi-signature support within the `txnbuild` package of the `go` SDK. Their contributions involved modifying the `txnbuild` package to allow for multiple signatures on transactions, as well as differing source accounts for operations within a single transaction. The user implemented and tested changes across different operation types, including AccountMerge, AllowTrust, BumpSequence, ChangeTrust, CreateAccount, CreatePassiveSellOffer, Inflation, ManageData, and ManageOffer. This work enhanced the SDK's transaction building capabilities.
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