James Durham
Owner at DurhamLLC
Columbia, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJames Durham is a versatile software engineer and owner with over a decade of hands-on experience building mobile apps, tooling, and developer utilities, particularly in Android and embedded environments. As developer and technical architect at QuarkWorks, he led R&D efforts and shipped notable projects like the Reprotech Android app and a cross-platform Canvas Machine, plus tooling such as a Realm annotation processor and macOS GUI for Realm databases. He has a knack for solving obscure build and platform problems—evidenced by an accepted Stack Overflow solution and discovery of a Windows Android build bug that impacted many projects. His background spans low-level systems work (cross-compiling Python and Valgrind for Android), UI/UX with Flash/ActionScript, and Linux server administration, reflecting a broad full-stack capability. Based in Columbia, Missouri, he runs a small consultancy (DurhamLLC) that encapsulates his entrepreneurial and independent-contributor streak. Notably, he combines practical production shipping with curiosity-driven experiments, from making modern Android run on legacy devices to building custom parsers and developer tooling.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Lincoln University (MO)University of Central Missouri
English
Github Skills (16)
mingw-w647
realm7
kotlin6
targets6
android5
mingw4
parsing2
getopt2
argument-parsing2
argparse2
python2
command-line1
subcommands1
option-parser1
command-line-parser1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
QuarkWorks/RealmTypeSafeQuery-Android
Aug 2016 - Apr 2018
A type safe way to handle realm queries in Android
Contributions:4 releases, 60 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 8 months
androidtype-safekotlinrealmhandle
FullSpectrumBusted/Point-Of-Sale
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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