James Baskerville
Product Engineer at Humanloop
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Baskerville is a product-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling mission-critical systems at companies like Square and Cocoon, and now driving product development at Humanloop. He pairs a Harvard CS background with an MPhil in Technology Policy from Cambridge, uniquely positioning him at the intersection of engineering, AI governance, and regulated product design. As Cocoon’s founding engineer he architected core business logic, hired and led teams, and translated complex government and insurance policies into scalable workflows. At Square he led teams that enabled PPP disbursements and forgiveness at scale, demonstrating an ability to deliver under high stakes. Outside of work he balances technical rigor with creative and athletic pursuits—singing and volleyball—and has language training in Mandarin, reflecting a global, multidisciplinary outlook.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil Technology Policy, Master of Philosophy - MPhil Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science Music, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Music at Harvard UniversityOPIc Language Certification Chinese -- Mandarin, OPIc Language Certification Chinese -- Mandarin at Beijing Language and Culture University
Chinese
Github Skills (17)
javascript9
react9
documentation9
vue6
artificial-intelligence6
huggingface5
typescript5
nextjs5
openai4
svelte4
language-model4
generative-ai4
vercel3
llm3
gemini3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jamesbaskerville/PBLT-Quantum-Autoencoder
Mar 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
sfbrigade/datasci-police-budget
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
To inform citizens on how much money goes towards police department budgets and how it stacks up relative to other spending.
Contributions:15 reviews, 109 commits, 91 PRs in 5 months
relativecitizensinformstackspolice
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