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James Cropcho

James Cropcho has been building software applications—and companies around those applications—for over a decade. He rapidly creates extendible and maintainable applications for early-stage startups. He has held founder, co-founder and first-hire roles at startups in a variety of industries. James was a lecturer for eight quarters at Ohio State University, teaching programming fundamentals and elementary statistical analysis to students who were not on a professional software engineering career track. He more recently taught web development at General Assembly's Manhattan campus in a course and seminars of his own construction. He is the creator of the MongoDB schema analyzer Variety, which was featured on the official MongoDB blog in 2012. He was a member of the two-person team that uncovered the first wide-scale breach of the secret ballot in American history in 2007 and was interviewed on National Public Radio. James recorded an endorsement for Radiolab and found the source material for a Freakonomics blog post. He helped to run a daylong workshop at SXSW 2015. He was profiled in a video segment for BBC News in 2015.