J Finlay
Senior Software Engineer at Argos Open Tech
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJ Finlay is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable systems in C++, Java, and Python across domains from low-latency trading to embedded mass spectrometry software. He founded Argos Open Tech and is the primary developer of Argos Translate, an open-source offline translation library for Python, contributing CLI tools, package management, and critical sentence-boundary improvements. Previously he architected and shipped high-performance C++ trading systems at Belvedere Trading and now develops instrument-control software for mass spectrometers, demonstrating breadth from production HFT to scientific devices. Based in Ithaca, NY, he pairs a Cornell Information Science background with hands-on DevOps and web development experience, and brings a practical, bug-focused approach honed through open-source maintenance and fieldwork.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Science Major Computer Science Minor, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Science Major Computer Science Minor at Cornell UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ithaca Senior High School
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Github Skills (10)
command-line-interface10
machine-translation10
nlp10
python10
command-line10
cli10
package-management9
open-source8
translation8
transformers7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
argosopentech/argos-translate
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Open-source offline translation library written in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 518 commits, 63 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:J focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the Argos Translate library. Their contributions included adding command-line interface (CLI) support, implementing features related to package management like downloading and installing packages, and addressing bugs. They also improved sentence boundary detection, which is critical for accurate translation. Furthermore, the user made updates to the software's version and fixed dependency errors.
nlptransformerspythonmachine-translationtranslation
argosopentech/translate-html
Jul 2021 - May 2022
Translate HTML using Argos Translate
Contributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 18 pushes in 9 months
translationargostranslatecreative-commonslocalization
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