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James Wu

Founder

Founder at Centauri AI

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedCentauri AI · YC

About

James Wu previously served as Director of Engineering at Tubi, where he built and oversaw the Platform Engineering team managing large-scale Kubernetes infrastructure and technology budgets. He also worked as a Principal Engineer at Minted focused on full-stack DevSecOps, and holds a degree from UC Berkeley.

Founder at Centauri AIYC W24

Intro paths

YC

James went through Y Combinator (Winter 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

GP

Their group partner at YC was Brad Flora, Backing expeditions into the future — the partner who ran Centauri AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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In turn, James can intro founders to Centauri AI's investors below.

Centauri AI's investors · 2

Amino CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $10M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024

Co-founders at Centauri AI

HLHe Lu
He LuFounder
MSMilan Shen
Milan ShenFounder

Experience

  1. GreptileI write codecurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. Centauri AICo-Founder, CTO2023 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
  3. TubiDirector of Engineering2023San Francisco Bay Area
  4. TubiInfrastructure Engineering Team Lead2019 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
  5. MintedPrincipal Engineer, SRE2018 — 2019San Francisco Bay Area
  6. MintedStaff Engineer, SRE2018San Francisco Bay Area
  7. MintedStaff Engineer, Ecommerce2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  8. MintedSenior Software Engineer, Infrastructure2014 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  9. MintedSoftware Engineer, Infrastructure2013 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
  10. MintedFrontend Engineering Intern, Ecommerce2011San Francisco Bay Area
  11. FunMobilityDatabase Engineering Intern, DBA and QA2010

Skills & more

PythonJavaScript12Amazon Web Services (AWS)7Git8jQuery6MongoDB4Node.js2MySQL6Backbone.js2HTML 52CSS3Flask
+12 moreOpen SourceDatabasesC++CJavaBashUnixCSSWeb ApplicationsKubernetesLoggingCloud Computing

Languages Chinese · English · Japanese · Spanish

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Frequently asked questions

Who is James Wu?
James Wu previously served as Director of Engineering at Tubi, where he built and oversaw the Platform Engineering team managing large-scale Kubernetes infrastructure and technology budgets. He also worked as a Principal Engineer at Minted focused on full-stack DevSecOps, and holds a degree from UC Berkeley.
Where does James Wu work?
James Wu is Founder of Centauri AI.
What companies did James Wu found?
James Wu founded Centauri AI.
Where did James Wu go to school?
James Wu studied at Y Combinator; University of California, Berkeley (Computer Science); Amador Valley High.

Founder mafias

Y Combinator mafia8,773

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Y Combinator mafia4,716

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

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University of California, Berkeley mafia538

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Steve WozniakBSFounded AppleTony XuB.S.Founded DoorDashAravind SrinivasDoctor of Philosophy - PhDFounded PerplexityAli GhodsiPost-docFounded DatabricksRyan PetersenBAFounded FlexportDavid FriedbergBAFounded Climate +2

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Greptile mafia3

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Joshua BrowderPre-Seed InvestorFounded DoNotPayDhruv RoongtaSWE InternFounded Slashy

Tubi mafia3

Also came through, then founded or led a company.

Chang SheVP of EngineeringFounded Datapad +1Brett WilsonBoard MemberFounded TubeMogul

Same school

Also attended Y Combinator2,000

Tarek MansourCo-founder & CEO of KalshiSuhail DoshiFounder of Mixpanel; founder of ParticleSubomi OluwalanaCo-founder & CEO of ConvoyArhaan A.Deeptech Fellow at Clear VenturesMaroof AhmedFounder at Octopus VenturesJustin SwartPartner at Bitkraft Esports Ventures

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Also attended University of California, Berkeley1,699

Byron DeeterPartner at Bessemer Venture PartnersSteve WozniakCo-founder of AppleTony XuCo-founder & CEO of DoorDashAravind SrinivasCo-founder & CEO of Perplexity AIAli GhodsiCo-founder & CEO of DatabricksRyan PetersenFounder & CEO of Flexport

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Shared employers

Also worked at Greptile6

Eric VishriaGeneral Partner at BenchmarkJoshua BrowderFounder at Browder CapitalDaksh GuptaFounder at GreptileSoohoon ChoiFounder at GreptileVaishant KameswaranFounder at GreptileDhruv RoongtaFounder at Slashy

Also worked at Centauri AI2

He LuFounder at Centauri AIMilan ShenFounder at Centauri AI

Also worked at Tubi12

Joanne ChenInvestor at Foundation CapitalAshu GargInvestor at Foundation CapitalSafa RashtchyManaging Partner at Think+ Ventures Management, LlcNiha GottiparthyInvestor at EMERGENT VENTURESAshmeet SidanaFounder and Chief Engineer at Engineering CapitalBobby YazdaniFounder & Managing Partner at Cota Capital

+ 6 more

Also worked at Minted10

Neil TolaneyGeneral Partner at TCVAlexander RosenManaging Partner at Ridge VenturesIbrahim AlSuwaidiPartner at DCM VenturesSara TatmanSenior EA & Operations at AIX VenturesKia FathiHead of Engineering at Fifty YearsJeff CroweSenior Managing Partner at Norwest Venture Partners

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