James Deal
Founding Engineer at ZML
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Deal is a founding engineer and self-taught developer in Austin with eight years of technical experience, specializing in Zig and grounded in C/C++ and TypeScript/JavaScript. He combines practical support experience from roles in IT and customer support with deepening expertise in machine learning and AI, demonstrated by founding ZML and authoring the open-source zigTensor library. Comfortable wearing multiple hats, he moves between low-level systems programming and ML tooling, prioritizing performance and simplicity. His unconventional background—a philosophy degree—helps him approach engineering problems with critical thinking and clear communication. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, well-documented solutions that bridge research ideas and production-ready code.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree, Philosophy at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (77)
cpp10
flashlight10
ai10
xla10
daisyui10
zig10
bazel10
ui-framework10
nodejs10
npm10
inference10
hardware10
tailwind10
javascript9
rust9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cryptodeal/gen-napi
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:210 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
cryptodeal/shumai-dataviz
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:57 commits, 1 PR, 54 pushes in 1 month
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