Founding Engineer

James is a software engineer and published author enjoying his work at the intersection of AI accessibility and social impact. Previously at Meta, Stripe, and Twitter, he helped build integrity systems, teach programming, and improve global economic infrastructure. Following an intentional departure from the ills of Silicon Valley, he briefly trained to become a paramedic before having a stroke in 2019, and now has been–in his eyes–recalled to the land of technology to lend voices to those disempowered and to help diffuse the grip of western monoculture on technology that should be equally owned and shaped by all of humanity. He enjoys developing AI tools for book recommendations, legislative analysis and disability advocacy. He lives between London and Beijing.