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About
Cody James founded Open X (TryOpenX) in 2019 to close the skills gap in advanced manufacturing by replacing university pathways with a digital, career-aligned industry school. A Forbes 30 Under 30 alum, he was Boeing's youngest robotics programmer at 19 and trained at MIT and Harvard. Open X partners with the U.S. Air Force and DoD contractors to train and place technical talent at scale.
Previous roles
- Robotics Programmer, Boeing
Notable work
- Founder and CEO of Open X, an industrial training and deployable-manufacturing company.
- Open X's CORE platform teaches advanced-manufacturing skills through self-paced programs built around real industrial workflows and hands-on projects.
- Open X's COLAB product is a portable industrial workshop system for training, fabrication, repair, and operational manufacturing in distributed or austere environments.
- Served as principal investigator and business contact on a 2020 U.S. Air Force SBIR Phase I award for an advanced-skills learning and career-development platform.
- Before Open X, worked as a robotics programmer in aerospace and defense.
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