About
James Pozdena is a co-founder based in Portland, Oregon.
Founder at moonrepoYC W23
Intro paths
YC
James went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran moonrepo's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, James can intro founders to moonrepo's investors below.
moonrepo's investors · 1
Co-founders at moonrepo
MJ
Miles JohnsonFounder
Experience
- AngelListSoftware Engineer2025 — 2026Colorado, United States
- RevisoCo-Founder2023 — 2025Colorado, United States
- moonrepoCo-Founder & CTO2023
- CoinbaseSenior Staff Software Engineer2022 — 2023
- CoinbaseStaff Software Engineer2020 — 2022
- Monarch MoneyPrincipal Software Engineer2020
- AirbnbStaff Software Engineer, Guest Store - Messaging2019 — 2020
- AirbnbLead Engineer, Service Excellence2018 — 2019Portland, Oregon, United States
- AirbnbEngineering Manager, Service Excellence2017 — 2018Portland, Oregon, United States
- AirbnbSenior Software Engineer2016 — 2017Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area
- Simple FinanceSoftware Architect2013 — 2016
- Simple FinanceBackend Engineer2011 — 2013
- ELC Technologies, Inc.Lead Developer2010 — 2011
- Revelation, Inc.Web developer2008 — 2010
Skills & more
NoSQLRust (Programming Language)WebAssemblyREST APIsPython (Programming Language)Ruby16Objective-C3Git18Ruby on Rails23PostgreSQL4SQL1JavaScript6
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CSSjQueryMySQLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)MongoDBDatadogAmazon DynamodbTechnical Staff ManagementSoftware InfrastructureAmazon SQSApache KafkaFrom James's professional profile.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is James Pozdena?
- James Pozdena is a co-founder based in Portland, Oregon.
- Where does James Pozdena work?
- James Pozdena is Founder of moonrepo.
- What companies did James Pozdena found?
- James Pozdena founded moonrepo.
- Where did James Pozdena go to school?
- James Pozdena studied at Y Combinator; University of Oregon (BS, Economics).
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