Founder Profile
Michael James
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Michael James?
Michael James is a founder of Cerebras Systems Inc., which was founded in 2015 with Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Sean Lie and Jean-Philippe Fricker.
- Company founded
- Cerebras Systems Inc.
- Founded
- 2015
- Co-founders
- Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Sean Lie and Jean-Philippe Fricker
Background
Senior Software Architect at SeaMicro and AMD.
Founding Story
Michael James co-founded Cerebras Systems alongside his former SeaMicro colleagues. As Chief Architect of Advanced Technologies, he was responsible for designing the highly specialized compiler software required to take standard AI models (written in PyTorch or TensorFlow) and successfully distribute them across the millions of cores on the massive Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- CNBC - Cerebras files to go public (2025 financials, OpenAI deal, customer mix) (Cerebras Systems Inc.)
- CNBC - Cerebras (CBRS) starts trading on Nasdaq after IPO (Cerebras Systems Inc.)