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James Wu

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Founder at Centauri AI

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedCentauri AI · YC

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Scott DavisunlockedJames: together at University of California, Berkeley (2012–2013)
×3James: together at University of California, Berkeley
×8James: together at Y Combinator

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.

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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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Centauri AI's investors · 2

Amino CapitalPalo Alto · $100K – $10M checks · since 2024Y 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.

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