Stan James
Product Design Research Prototyper at Meta
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStan James is a creative technologist and product design research prototyper with 14 years of experience building and leading cross-disciplinary engineering teams from early startups to Meta. A two-time co-founder (Wordnik, Lijit/Sovrn) and coding enthusiast since childhood, he blends hands-on prototyping, mobile and AR product work with blockchain and computer vision expertise. At Meta he shifted from partner engineering into research prototyping, bringing a maker’s mindset to design-led experiments and high-fidelity demos. His background spans founding CTO roles, leading mobile and prototype engineering at Sphero, and driving blockchain architecture at Origin, demonstrating both startup grit and corporate scale experience. Based in Boulder, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with a long history of shipping playful, research-driven products that bridge hardware, software, and emerging interfaces.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at University of Colorado at BoulderMS, MS at Universität Osnabrück
German, English
Github Skills (152)
messaging10
messenger10
ipfs10
ganache10
microphone10
security10
telegram10
chat10
smart-contracts10
javascript10
solidity10
webcam10
get-started10
spam10
monorepo10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
wanderingstan/handybird
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Real hand gestures to play Flappy Bird, using doppler effect and microphone.
Contributions:59 commits, 4 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years 10 months
dopplerflappy-birdmicrophonebirdflappy
wanderingstan/email2post
Dec 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:43 commits in 7 months
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