James Cropcho has been building software applications - and companies around those applications - for over a decade. He is the creator of the MongoDB schema analyzer Variety, which was featured on the official MongoDB blog in 2012. He was a member of the two-person team which uncovered the first wide-scale breach of the secret ballot in American history, and has been featured on National Public Radio and BBC News. Last spring, James designed and taught the graduate course "Web Development with Open Data" at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.