James O'brien
Co-Founder COO at Ducky
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames O'brien is a founder and operator with a decade of experience building companies at the intersection of finance, crypto, and developer tooling. As Co-Founder and COO of Ducky he designs information-retrieval infrastructure tailored for LLMs, drawing on prior leadership roles shaping crypto investment products and operations at Valkyrie and Alto/AltoIRA. He blends product, regulatory-savvy business development and hands-on engineering sensibilities—bringing alternatives like digital securities and regulated crowdfunding into retirement and investment platforms. Based in Nashville, he pairs startup grit (including founding a consumer brand) with a persistent open-source developer interest, which informs his practical approach to scaling systems and reducing LLM hallucinations. Notably, his career arc reflects a recurring focus on unlocking new capital flows through product integrations and compliance-aware innovation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
HS Degree, HS Degree at Deerfield AcademyBachelor of Arts and Sciences, Sociology, Bachelor of Arts and Sciences, Sociology at Colby College
Spanish
Github Skills (39)
musicbrainz10
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cli10
mp39
gnome-terminal9
flac9
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audio8
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linux8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dvcky/dvcky
Oct 2021 - Oct 2025
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
dvcky/dvcky.github.io
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
My GitHub website.
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1754 pushes in 7 months
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