Riley James
Founder & CEO at Xonboard
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolRiley James is a founder and product-led CEO with a decade of experience building developer APIs and consumer tools for embedded finance in the Australian superannuation space. He currently leads SuperAPI and complementary startups (Xonboard, SuperChoiceForm) that deliver payroll-integrated onboarding, compliance, and member-facing services to improve retirement outcomes. Previously he scaled developer ecosystems at Xero—integrating 180+ partners, producing sample apps, and contributing to notable open-source tooling such as enhancements to the xeroizer library. Riley blends hands-on engineering and developer advocacy with product strategy, having shipped startups and hackathon-winning projects since the early 2010s. He’s as comfortable coding API integrations as he is pitching partners, and his work consistently focuses on making complex financial processes simple and contextual for employees. Based in Melbourne, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a background in developer relations and practical experience in crypto and payments product leadership.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Music, High School, Music at Braemar CollegeBusiness: Entrepeneurship, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Corporate Venturing, Business: Entrepeneurship, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Corporate Venturing at RMIT University
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Github Skills (19)
unit-testing10
acc10
apidoc10
testing10
accounting10
xero-api10
ruby10
api10
test-unit10
unit-test10
database8
databases8
activerecord6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
waynerobinson/xeroizer
Oct 2017 - Sep 2021
Xero accounting system API library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 30 commits, 39 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Riley primarily contributed to the Xeroizer library by implementing new features and fixing existing ones related to the Xero accounting system API. Their work included adding support for attachments, invoice reminders, and payments to various endpoints like contacts, credit notes, and bank transfers. They also refactored code, added new models and extended existing models for functionalities like online invoices, and addressed bug fixes and test improvements. Furthermore, the user worked on upgrading the library, including TLS 1.2 requirements, and bumping the library version.
xero
rjaus/awesome-ublacklist
Jun 2021 - May 2022
Awesome list of uBlacklist subscriptions to block search results from google, bing, duckduckgo.
Contributions:5 reviews, 20 commits, 12 PRs in 11 months
lgbtduckduckgosubscriptionsublacklistbing
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