James Cameron
Senior Systems Administrator
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Cameron is a seasoned Senior Systems Administrator and embedded systems engineer with 26 years of experience building and sustaining open source Linux-based systems, networked devices, and real-time firmware for education and research environments. He has held technical and leadership roles at One Laptop Per Child—rising from volunteer developer to CTO and Sustaining Engineering Manager—where he combined firmware, system testing and field-focused sustainment to keep large deployments running. Comfortable across the stack, James contributes to front-end and documentation improvements on notable open-source projects like Sugar and KA Lite, improving usability for educators and offline learners. Based in New South Wales, he pairs pragmatic systems administration with hands-on embedded and network programming expertise, and an unusual focus on usability in constrained hardware and offline scenarios.
26 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Business, Bachelor Business at Charles Sturt University
Github Skills (18)
website-development10
css10
command-line-interface10
user-interface10
gtk10
command-line10
html10
documentation10
cli10
content-management-system9
python9
content-management9
usability9
c178
fest8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sugarlabs/www
Jan 2018 - Sep 2022
The Sugar Labs web site
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 22 commits, 133 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the website's front-end, making multiple updates to HTML files, particularly within the navigation and content sections. They also focused on improving user experience by promoting links to HTTPS and removing unnecessary elements, such as the chat function and search box. Additionally, the user addressed content organization by updating links and correcting attributions.
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sugarlabs/sugar
Aug 2009 - Nov 2022
Sugar GTK shell
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 252 commits, 159 PRs in 13 years 4 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the Sugar GTK shell's user interface and functionality. They modified the buddy menu, reordering and adding options. Key contributions include implementing a configurable restart option and addressing UI issues in the control panel, particularly related to the About My Computer section, also fixing various display issues. Additionally, the user improved network device icons by including the IP address.
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