James Cain
Chief Scientist, Co-Founder at Brunel University London
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Cain is a veteran software architect and entrepreneur who combines daily hands-on coding with a whiteboard-driven, visual approach to problem solving. As Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Media-Anywhere and former Chief Software Architect at Grass Valley, he has led large-scale, standards-based media systems, bridging industry and academia and turning R&D into commercially successful products. His deep C++ expertise spans Windows internals, file systems, high-throughput networking and concurrency, with a specialty in mapping C++ APIs to Python for practical integration. James is equally at home sketching architectures in the woods as he is running workshops to build consensus across engineering, business and broadcast teams. He holds a PhD in Software Engineering and a long-running visiting researcher role at Brunel University, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor and product-focused innovation.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Systems Engineering, BSc, Computer Systems Engineering at University of KentPh.D., Software Engineering, Ph.D., Software Engineering at University of ReadingMSc, Artificial Intelligence, MSc, Artificial Intelligence at Cranfield University
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Github Skills (10)
vfs8
hyper-v7
ntfs7
performance-optimization7
windows-service7
rdma6
c-library5
windows5
quic4
nghttp21
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
DrJWCain/VFS
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
An Open Source SMB2/3 Server - Running on Windows in User Mode!
Contributions:69 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 1 month
vfswindowsperformance-optimizationhyper-vntfs
DrJWCain/Argo-Examples
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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