James Cherry
President at Parallax Software
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Cherry is a seasoned technology executive and hands-on engineer with seven years of recent experience and decades-long roots in electronic design and software architecture. As President of Parallax Software in Redwood City, he blends leadership with deep technical fluency, drawing on prior architect and research roles at Cadence, Sun Microsystems, and Symbolics. He has core expertise in netlist processing and graph traversal, demonstrated by substantive backend and system-architecture contributions to the OpenSTA engine within The OpenROAD Project. Known for refactoring legacy systems into flexible, reusable architectures, he excels at translating complex EDA requirements into maintainable implementations. Trained at MIT in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with a pragmatic, product-focused mindset. An understated strength is his ability to operate across research, product, and engineering teams to drive long-lived technical platforms.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenSTA
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
OpenSTA engine
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & System Architect
Backend Developer & System ArchitectContributions:1 release, 1032 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:James focused on OpenSTA engine. Contributions included implementing features for netlist editing and graph traversal. They refactored core components, implemented a flexible and reusable architecture, and were involved in the design and implementation of key parts of the system.
circuitsmachine-learningpower-systems
jjcherry56/OpenSTA
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Static timing analyzer
Contributions:1 review, 79 commits, 87 pushes in 10 days
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