James Smith
CTO Heyzap.com, British Entrepreneur, Developer, Mathematics & Computer Science Graduate, Previous co-founder of helpthirst.com and sponsor-me facebook app.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://loopj.com |
| Industries: | Computing, Entertainment, Gaming, Internet, Media |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, C/C++, Databases, Django, Embedded systems, Entrepreneurship, Facebook platform, Flash, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Python, Rails, Software Engineering, SQL, System Administration, Web Development |
| Location: | San Francisco, CA |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Giving back, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects |
| Schools: | University of Bath |
FEATURED STARTUP
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | WeGot.tv |
| Position: | Founder and Developer |
| Time period: | November 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Working on a web application in my spare time, designed to allow users to discover, track and watch on-demand television programmes. The frontend has been developed using the Django Python web framework. Television and episode data is scraped from various sources using multi-threaded Python applications which employ scraping technologies including
BeautifulSoup and ElementTree. An early preview of the site is available at http://beta.wegot.tv. |
| Employer: | Helpthirst.com |
| Position: | Co-founder and Lead Developer |
| Time period: | May 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Developed a general knowledge “brain training” style viral game in conjunction with the charity World Vision, to donate water to the developing world. Created the frontend in HTML/CSS, the game in JavaScript using the JQuery JavaScript framework, and the backend using the Django web framework along with various Python scripts for question generation, scraping and reporting. The completed site is available at http://www.helpthirst.com, and so far almost 2 million cups of water have been donated. |
| Employer: | Sponsor-Me Facebook Application |
| Position: | Co-founder, Developer and Designer |
| Time period: | June 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Developed and designed a Facebook application with a friend using the Symfony PHP
framework. The application currently has 12,000 active users, and has handled thousands of pounds of donations. You can see the application at http://apps.facebook.com/sponsor-me/. |
| Employer: | Bloomberg L.P. |
| Position: | Financial Software Developer |
| Time period: | September 2007 - June 2009 |
| Description: | Worked in the FX AutoExecution team and worked on a multibank trading platform amongst other things. |
| Employer: | MPC Data Limited |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | July 2004 - September 2005 |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Bath |
| Time period: | 2002 - 2007 |
| Degree: | Mathematics and Computer Science, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | I am a keen traditional and sport climber. As well as taking regular climbing trips, I recently
organised and led an unguided expedition to the summit of Mont Blanc. Apart from climbing and mountaineering, I also enjoy power kiting, squash and going to the gym. In addition to my sporting activities, I like to play Texas hold’em poker when I get the chance. |
James' Startups (3)
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Intruders
Intruders TV is a web tv about the new internet industry, watch in your own language, video stories, interview, video test and more about the internet! Get behind the scene of the startups and the web.
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James is Following (4)
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MyCupid
MyCupid delivers personalized search and advertising solutions connecting viewers’ TV to their mobile device.
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James' Contacts (7)
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Babul Miah
British computer science grad getting into the startup world!
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Vincent Camara
French, Founder of Intuders.tv.
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Alex Tew
British, 24, creator of the Million Dollar Homepage and co-founder of PopJam. Based in London.