Summary
James Cutajar is a Principal Software Developer with 14+ years building high-performance, distributed systems across finance and gaming sectors, currently leading platform engineering at Blip.pt. He brings deep expertise in Java, Scala and C/C++ alongside practical experience with Cassandra, Kafka and distributed data grids, and a strong background in networks, TCP/IP and concurrent programming. James blends hands-on system design with agile delivery, having driven critical services for Morgan Stanley, Betfair and UBS. An active open-source contributor and author—he wrote Learn Concurrent Programming with Go and maintains a technical blog—he uniquely bridges low-level performance tuning with scalable, production-grade architectures.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc, Distributed Systems & Networks, M.Sc, Distributed Systems & Networks at University of Kent
B.Sc (Hons), Computer Science, B.Sc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Malta
English, Italian, Maltese, Portuguese