Jim has been an active participant in blockchain for several years and at one point even used Bitcoin to purchase real products because it seemed “neat”. In retrospect, this wasn’t so neat. Previously, Jim was the head of engineering at Mylestone, a company he cofounded in early 2016. Prior to Mylestone, Jim lead the research and development of patent pending skill recommendation algorithms at Pluralsight.Jim joined Pluralsight in 2014, following the acquisition of Smarterer, a machine learning based skill assessment company.At Smarterer, Jim was an early engineer that built advanced machine learning technology and enterprise software adopted by Fortune 100 companies. Jim's passion for building extends to the broader startup community via his developer event series, Stack Dive, and as an angel investor to several local startups, including AdHawk and LinkSquares. In another life, Jim developed advanced models to quantify risk and abnormal returns in the market for Financial Transmission Rights, a type of energy derivative.