James Bain
Software Engineer at TugboatQA
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Bain is a software engineer in Calgary with a decade of experience blending web development, computational linguistics, and anthropological insight. He holds a PhD in Anthropology and Computational Linguistics from the University of Missouri-Columbia and pairs rigorous research training with practical engineering skills. James teaches and documents what he learns, translating complex academic topics into accessible web-native tools and resources. His background in human evolutionary biology and French literature gives him a multidisciplinary perspective that informs user-centered design and language-aware systems. Comfortable at the intersection of research and production, he builds solutions that reflect both empirical rigor and real-world usability.
10 years of coding experience
Invited Graduate Researcher, Human Evolutionary Biology, Invited Graduate Researcher, Human Evolutionary Biology at Université Montpellier II Science et TechniquesUniversity of Missouri
English, French
Stackoverflow
167reputation
28kreached
4answers
4questions
Github Skills (42)
authentication9
fastify9
api8
gateway8
proxy8
server7
nodejs7
phrase7
http-proxy7
rest7
api-gateway7
http-request7
protocols7
shell6
js6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jcbain/lovelace
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
neural networks for phrase/sentiment classification written in TensorFlow
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
nlpsentencedeep-learningneural-networksmachine-learning
jcbain/neander_trauma
Feb 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:101 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 11 months
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