CTO at Dotfile
James Trunk is an engineering leader and former VP of Engineering at Griffin. He helps technology teams build better software through strong leadership, healthy engineering culture, effective decision-making and practical delivery.
James has 25+ years of experience building high-performance teams and launching successful products. He has a proven track record transforming startups into scale-ups through process innovation, strategic product development, and people-first leadership. James has built a bank from scratch, open-sourced a world-class architecture, advised leadership teams, coached executives, and sat on multiple boards.
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A CTO’s framework for going from vibe coding to world-class.
Dotfile CTO James Trunk shares his 5-level framework for agentic engineering from vibe coding to specification engineering, and how to stay valuable as AI reshapes software teams, hiring, and productivity.