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James D. Status: Offline
Oakland, CA
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Full Service Software Solutions

Hi! I'm James, a Harvard Computer Science graduate, an ex-Googler, and CTO-level fullstack software engineer. I have 21 years of work experience, and can meet in-person if you’re in or near silicon valley. I believe that brilliance is good; reliability is better; and most important are integrity and compassion.. I help awesome people doing amazing things in the world; and I will deliver you delightful tech and tech leadership, on time, on budget, with full transparency and candor. I provide the following services: - Fractional CTO: I will work with you to clarify your visionary goals into an actionable technical roadmap; help you secure funding if necessary; and then run the technical operation start to finish. - Web and native app development: From napkin-sketch ideation to 7+ figure production, I will deliver intuitive, elegant digital experiences to your customers, from top-rated games and 3D virtual worlds to FDA compliant medical software, on the web and on devices. - Solving “unsolvable” tech problems. Examples of real projects I was engaged for: building a low power “hurricane proof” weather camera (Weather Channel); assisting with the development of the Semantic Reactor (a Google/Alphabet internal project); building a physical neural network entirely out of glass. - Technical project management: I will ensure your project runs on time and on budget, with incremental milestones and mitigated risks, using the best of Agile and PM tooling. I can manage teams large and small. - Productionalizing Research. Give me the research paper or the patent, I’ll make it real and scalable. - Consulting, with lawyers and attorneys, as a software engineering resource, for instance with respect to contracts and other legal matters (like Privacy Policies or GDPR/CCPA concerns). - Modernization of old technology: I will migrate and modernize your legacy application using the industry’s latest best practices. I have experience with performance tuning, scalability, devops, security hardening, penetration testing, and much more. - Teaching and coaching: I teach middle and high schoolers competitive coding. I enjoy tapping into every student’s life story and motivations. I also advise entrepreneurs and can act as a sounding board for personal and professional goals. - Solutions Architect: I provide comparative analysis of modern cloud technologies and explanations of how to use them for different scenarios. For example, I delivered a research paper to a private equity firm comparing Kafka, Kinesis, and other message queue technologies. The following are some of the technologies I have experience with: • Languages: Javascript/Typescript (ES6, ES7), C and C++, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, C#, Go / Golang, Rust • Analytics and Automation: make.com, Zapier, Twillio, Vercel, Airtable, Tableaux, Salesforce • Web: HTML5/CSS /SCSS/SASS/CSS-in-JS, React, Angular, WASM, 3js / three.js, Svelte, Astro, Vue.js, Qwik, Next.js, internationalization/i18n, localization l10n, accessibility/a11y • AI: PyTorch, TensorFlow, ChatGPT, GPT3 and GPT4, GAN (generative adversarial networks), Transformers, LSTM, RNN, belief networks / HMM • Mobile: ios (Swift and Objective-C), Android (Kotlin, Java) and DEX / Dalvik debugging, Google Play, App Store, React Native, expo • Geospatial: S3, H2, KD-tree, quadtree, ArcGIS, choropleths, NLP (including slack and discord chat bots) • MVP and Project Management: Figma, Trello, Jira, Agile, Scrum, Kanban • Testing and QA: JUnit, Jest, Mocha, Chai, Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright, Cypress • Backend: NodeJS, Express, Django, flask, Tomcat, Spring, RabbitMQ • Infrastructure and DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes/k8s. GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, Vercel, Netlify, Gatsby, Drone, Vagrant, Chef, Ansible, Terraform • Auth and InfoSec: auth0, oauth2, pentest, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA • Cloud tech: AWS, Azure, GCP, EC2, S3, Lambda, Kafka, Kinesis, AppSync, Spark, Storm, DataFlow, Hadoop • Databases: MySQL, Postgres, Firebase, Mongo, DynamoDB, Redis, NoSQL • Games / 3D: Unity, Unreal, OpenGL, webgl, photogrammetry, Meshlab, Blender, OpenCV • Embedded Tech: IoT, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, • Code Management: Github, Gitlab, Gerrit, Git, Svn • DevOps and Command Line: Bash, ZSH, Linux, PowerShell, Make, ImageMagick, FFMpeg, cron, GNU core tools
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Skills

  • Python
  • Scala
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Unity
  • React Native
  • TensorFlow
  • NodeJS Framework
  • PyTorch

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