James Becwar
Director Software Engineering at ICF
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJames Becwar is a Director of Software Engineering with 13 years of professional experience building scalable web and data systems, currently leading engineering at ICF after SemanticBits was acquired. He pairs deep hands-on development—spending much of his time coding and mentoring distributed teams—with architectural leadership across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure Government, private clouds) and complex data infrastructures. James cut his teeth on x86 assembly and C as a teenager, holds dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics plus an MSE, and brings a rare blend of low-level systems intuition and high-level product thinking. He has a track record of rescuing and modernizing fragile systems, shipping APIs and production imaging/indexing pipelines, and guiding remote, multi-national engineering teams to deliver fast. Outside work his long-term goals signal a commitment to both technical excellence and making lasting scientific contributions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSE Master of Software Engineering, MSE Master of Software Engineering at University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Github Skills (55)
gnu10
wireless9
gnuradio9
python8
cybersecurity8
electron7
typescript7
client-side-validation7
sql-server6
asp-net6
newrelic6
coursier6
android6
scala6
spark6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jbecwar/PaintTheNews
Feb 2025 - May 2026
Contributions:1837 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
jbecwar/jake_bot
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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