James Tuckett

Technical Founder

• At Open, designed the architecture for tokenised US equities backed 1:1 by real-world broker positions at Alpaca (a US Broker Dealer).
• At Handover, built a valuation engine fed by a chat experience, UK marketplace for SMB acquisitions seeded from Companies House data, including a data pipeline with agent built on Claude Agent SDK.
• Neither were capable of being taken further, due to market conditions/competition (Open) and marketplace issues (reluctant supply side re Handover).

Blockchain Engineer

• Co-lead engineer and architect of the Lazy Summer Protocol - thousands of users and $200M TVL across 5+ chains.
• Led the governance layer of the protocol and supported the core protocol contracts; audited by ChainSecurity.

CTO, Co-founder

• Built the platform from scratch and led engineering as technical co-founder.
• Secured pre-seed funding and helped grow the business to £50k+ MRR.

Senior Software Engineer

Part of an elite team of ex-FAANG engineers building the private people network — an internal LinkedIn for Advent personnel.

Software Engineer

Product Director

Worked with SAP and the PRA/FCA to build a brand new digital clearing bank headquartered in London.

Software Engineer & Product

Clients incl. MakerDAO, Lloyd's of London, Deutsche Bank, MoneyTailor, Vanquis Bank and more.

CEO, Founder

• Founded an investment service for the peer-to-peer lending space; raised seed capital and grew to £1M+ AUM.
• Sold the business to a P2P lending platform in 2016.

Chartered Accountant