Garrett James
Principal at Apollo Global Management, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrett James is a Principal-level engineering leader in New York with nine years in finance technology and over two decades of systems and embedded software experience dating back to console and graphics driver development. He builds AI-enabled systems, copilots, agents and data-driven workflows, and has led platform modernizations—migrating legacy architectures to serverless and object storage while digitizing complex, manual investment processes. At Goldman Sachs and Taconic he combined hands-on C++, Python, and cloud engineering with team leadership to deliver portfolio management, systematic trading, and integrated risk tools that supported new products like actively managed ETFs. His background in game and device-driver engineering gives him a rare low-level systems intuition that informs scalable, maintainable platform design. Known as a curious builder who enjoys learning and creating with code, he balances mentoring and technical contribution to move teams from prototype to production.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Deerfield AcademyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Russian, Irish, Spanish, English
Github Skills (15)
open-source6
edtech6
herokuapp6
cloud-integration6
chat-application4
websocket3
rest-api3
chat3
database3
nodejs3
sqlite2
mysql2
postgresql2
fundamentals2
sql1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gjames5355/workflow-demo-ui
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:7 reviews, 11 PRs, 21 pushes in 24 days
gjames5355/chorerunner
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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