# James Hebert

> Founding Engineer |  CTO @Strykr.ai | 0-to-1 AI Systems at Scale

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jameshebert

Hands-on full-stack AI engineer and architect who leads teams and works directly with stakeholders. Ships web, mobile (iOS/Android), and desktop applications. 9+ years building production systems at scale. Founding Engineer at Strykr AI, architected from zero to one, 13+ microservices, 170k+ users, thousands of daily agentic LLM calls. Owns architecture decisions, LLMOps standards, security policy, and production reliability end-to-end. Designed multi-provider LLM orchestration with Agentic RAG (LangGraph, CrewAI), voice AI (STT/TTS), and hallucination mitigation. Built real-time data platform (300+ API endpoints, 24 financial hubs, 14 adapters) with NLP sentiment pipelines and multi-source financial data ingestion. Active open source builder across AI tooling, ML research, and agent payments including ClifCode (Rust + Tauri AI code editor), Volatility Archetypes (+17pp over benchmarks), and AgentPayy (agent-native payments). Applies first-principles thinking to production ML and data engineering. Prototypes fast, finds the real problem, and drives to production.

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer & CTO @ Strykr AI @ Strykr.ai
Jan 2024 – Present | California, United States
Hands-on founding engineer. Built 0-to-1 AI platform (13+ microservices) serving 170,000+ users across web, mobile (iOS/Android published), and desktop. Full-stack AI engineering from architecture through production. Thousands of daily agentic LLM calls in production.

▸ Architected and shipped 13+ microservices from scratch: PRISM data platform (300+ endpoints, 24 financial hubs, 14 adapters), Strykr Screener (FastAPI, NLP sentiment), multi-platform apps (iOS/Android/macOS/Windows/Linux)

▸ Built ML classification system (GMM + XGBoost, 1.1M bars, 155 assets) achieving 75.7% out-of-sample accuracy, +17pp over GARCH benchmarks; detected Lehman Brothers collapse 354 days early and COVID crash 357 days early using only price data

▸ Established LLMOps pipeline: multi-provider orchestration (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter), Agentic RAG (LangGraph, CrewAI), prompt injection defenses, structured JSON outputs, evaluation metrics, Langfuse tracing

▸ Scaled GenAI SEO pipeline 240x (<50 to 12,000+ daily impressions) with automated content generation; shipped voice AI with pre-rendered chunks for sub-500ms perceived latency

▸ Implemented AI cybersecurity controls: prompt-injection mitigations, SHA-256 hashing, bearer auth, rate limiting (60-600 req/min), row-level security, circuit breakers

▸ Published mobile apps to Apple App Store and Google Play; shipped desktop apps (macOS/Windows/Linux) with auto-update and native notifications

Tech stack: Python, FastAPI, Django, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Capacitor, Tauri, PostgreSQL, Redis, Supabase, Docker, GitHub Actions, OpenAI, Anthropic, Langfuse

### Founding Full-Stack Engineer @ SocialPass
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | California, United States
Co-founded event ticketing and identity platform processing 10,000+ tickets across live events. Built full-stack blockchain development from smart contracts to on-chain verification. Managed orderly shutdown in 2024 including user-data export and contract close-out.

▸ Built and launched event ticketing platform processing 10,000+ tickets across live events; integrated Apple Wallet and Google Wallet for mobile ticket storage

▸ Produced ticketing infrastructure for NFT Paris and Art Basel Miami events with real-time on-chain verification

▸ Architected Django backend with paid, free, and NFT-gated entry flows, real-time blockchain verification, and Stripe payment processing

▸ Designed and deployed Ethereum smart contracts (Solidity, Foundry) and Solana programs (Anchor) for token-gated access and event ticketing

▸ Integrated blockchain data providers, WalletConnect, and Web3 tooling (viem.js) for wallet authentication and on-chain reads/writes across Ethereum and Solana

Tech stack: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Ethereum, Solidity, Solana, Anchor, viem.js, Stripe

### Founding Engineer @ FomoHunt
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | California, United States
Founded events aggregation platform connecting users with events across North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Built 0-to-1 from scratch.

▸ Built events aggregation platform from scratch: data ingestion pipelines normalizing event data across 50+ sources (Meetup, Eventbrite, custom landing pages)

▸ Designed and implemented event search, discovery, and creation features across North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia markets

▸ Led full-stack development, infrastructure, and scaling from prototype to production

Tech stack: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React

### Licensed Realtor & Renovation Project Manager @ Keller Williams Realty, LLC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017
Managed residential transactions and renovation projects end-to-end. Built execution discipline that translated into product and engineering leadership.

▸ Executed residential sales transactions: negotiation, contract management, marketing strategy

▸ Managed renovation projects end-to-end: scope, budget, schedule, and contractor coordination across multiple trades

### Media Producer @ A+E Global Media
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Oversaw production operations across film, TV, and commercial projects under tight deadlines. Developed planning and risk management habits that inform engineering leadership today.

▸ Executed residential sales transactions: negotiation, contract management, marketing strategy

▸ Managed renovation projects end-to-end: scope, budget, schedule, and contractor coordination across multiple trades


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jameslhebert
- Website: https://www.Strykr.ai

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Last updated: 2026-04-05