James Kirk Cropcho

James Kirk Cropcho

James Cropcho has been building software applications—and companies around those applications—for over a decade.

He is an adjunct professor in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University, where he created the graduate course Web Development with Open Data.

James is an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) member and has held founder, co-founder and first-hire roles at startups in a variety of industries.

He is the creator of the MongoDB schema analyzer Variety, which was featured on the official MongoDB blog.

James was a member of the two-person team which uncovered the first wide-scale breach of the secret ballot in American history, and was featured on National Public Radio.

He recorded his own endorsement for Radiolab, which received daily airplay on WNYC. He furnished the source material for a Freakonomics blog post. He helped to run a daylong workshop at South by Southwest. He was profiled in a video segment for BBC News.

Presentations

Asynchronous Python: A Gentle Introduction

Tuesday 10:45 AM–11:20 AM in Central Park East 6501a (6th fl)

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