James Saunders
Founder, CTO at RelyComply
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolJames Saunders is a founder and CTO with 14 years of experience architecting and shipping large-scale, production analytics and AML systems across Africa, the Middle East, and the USA. He has built and exited businesses that blend decision-support, Bayesian reasoning, and machine learning into cloud-first platforms used by multinational banks, insurers and fintechs. Equally comfortable setting executive technical strategy as he is designing core algorithms, he has deep roots in control-system software and novel graph/UIs from early industrial projects. His work reflects a pragmatic fusion of mathematical rigor (postgraduate distinctions in math and CS) with hands-on engineering and team leadership across distributed international projects. Notably, he translates complex domain knowledge into automatable, auditable systems that lower operational costs and accelerate customer acquisition.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc (Hons), Mathematics of Computer Science, Bsc (Hons), Mathematics of Computer Science at University of Cape Town
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Github Skills (43)
json10
fastapi10
json-schema10
async10
swagger10
api10
rest10
python9
aws-ecs9
swagger-ui9
redoc9
openapi9
pydantic8
django8
graphviz8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BusinessOptics/dash_interactive_graphviz
Dec 2019 - Mar 2021
An interactive graphviz viewer for Dash
Contributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
graphviz
BusinessOptics/fn_graph
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
Lightweight function pipelines for Python
Contributions:80 commits, 4 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 4 months
python
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