James Carlyle
PhD Candidate, AI For Sustainability
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Carlyle is a seasoned technology leader and founder with over 11 years of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade distributed systems, blockchain protocols, and engineering organisations. Currently a PhD candidate in AI for Sustainability at the University of Southampton, he combines deep technical leadership with a renewed focus on applying AI to energy and ocean challenges. He co-founded and led Obscuro to create a privacy-preserving Ethereum protocol and previously served as CIO and Chief Engineer at R3, where he architected interbank shared ledgers and production blockchain integrations for global banks. His career spans early mobile and web innovations through leadership at Barclays, Sky, and founding multiple startups, reflecting a rare blend of product vision, cryptography-aware systems design, and delivery at scale. An adventurous skipper who circumnavigated the globe with his family, he brings curiosity and resilience to long-term research and high-stakes engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability at University of SouthamptonPostgraduate Diploma Advanced Software Engineering, Postgraduate Diploma Advanced Software Engineering at Northumbria UniversityEngineering Science Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Engineering Science Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Durham UniversityThe King's School, Canterbury
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Github Skills (36)
kotlin10
interoperability10
contract10
distributed-ledger10
dlt10
privacy10
ethereum10
blockchain10
strict10
corda10
ipfs9
golang9
go9
p2p9
abi8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ten-protocol/obscuro.github.io
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:106 commits, 2 PRs, 71 pushes in 2 months
jamescarlyle/ipfs-wiki
Sep 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:32 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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