James Craster
Software Engineer - Infra at JPMorganChase
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Craster is a software engineer with 9 years' experience building backend and infrastructure systems, currently focused on infra engineering at JPMorgan Chase. He combines Python and Rust proficiency—having built REST ingestion APIs, Rust-based document similarity services, and middleware search layers—alongside practical DevOps skills in Kubernetes, Helm and Docker. At a Cambridge University spin-out he designed analytics databases, Kubernetes cronjobs and Grafana dashboards to surface product usage, and also shipped frontend integrations and mentored junior engineers. His background includes MSc Advanced Computer Science from Oxford and research at The Alan Turing Institute on multi-objective optimisation applied to routing, reflecting a strong theoretical foundation paired with production-grade delivery. Notably, he bridges low-latency similarity computation with scalable cloud-native deployments, making him effective at turning research ideas into reliable services.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc Advanced Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc Advanced Computer Science at University of OxfordBSc Discrete Mathematics, BSc Discrete Mathematics at University of Warwick
Spanish
Github Skills (51)
game-engine10
open-source10
plugin10
nodejs10
game-development10
eslint-plugin10
multiplayer9
godot9
eslint-config9
tooling9
eslint9
typescript9
tslint9
monorepo8
google-scholar8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JamesCraster/NetworkedPhysics
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
A physics engine for a multiplayer platfomer game
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
physics-enginephysicsgamegame-developmentmultiplayer
alan-turing-institute/urbanroute
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Urban routing algorithms
Contributions:3 reviews, 168 commits, 16 PRs in 3 months
urbanrouting
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