James Benton
Software Developer at VMware
Dacorum, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Benton is a seasoned software developer with 14 years of experience, currently building software at VMware from his base in Dacorum, England. He holds an MEng in Computer Science from Imperial College London and blends strong academic foundations with long-term enterprise engineering experience. James has contributed to research-driven open-source projects, notably working on memory management and data structures for the Decaf Wii U emulator, demonstrating a talent for low-level systems and performance-sensitive code. His background suggests comfort across back-end systems and an ability to turn research insights into usable software components. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep technical curiosity with steady delivery in large organizations.
14 years of coding experience
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, 2:1, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, 2:1 at Imperial College London
Github Skills (6)
memory-management10
vulkan10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
emulation10
reverse-engineering9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
decaf-emu/decaf-emu
May 2015 - May 2022
Researching Wii U emulation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3392 commits, 253 PRs, 1329 pushes in 7 years
Contributions summary:James's commits focused on researching and implementing features for the Wii U emulator, Decaf. They made several code changes relating to memory management with TinyHeap, and other data structures. Their work was essential to the development of a usable Wii U emulator.
cppemulatorwii-uemulationwii
decaf-emu/addrlib
Dec 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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