James Cutajar
Principal Software Developer at Blip.pt
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolJames 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 KentB.Sc (Hons), Computer Science, B.Sc (Hons), Computer Science at University of Malta
English, Italian, Maltese, Portuguese
Github Skills (16)
simulation10
multithreading10
boids10
java9
python9
golang9
algorithms8
dsa8
science7
functional-programming7
scala6
computer-science5
javascript5
ruby4
graph-algorithms3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cutajarj/geekyInvestor
Apr 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 2 years
cutajarj/BigONotationInPlainEnglish
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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