James Edmondson
Chief Science Officer Chief Technology Officer at PEBBLE STONE COATINGS
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolJames Edmondson is a technology executive and research scientist with 15 years building and scaling disruptive AI and robotics systems, currently serving as Chief Science Officer of Koshee and CTO/COO across its subsidiaries in Las Vegas. He combines hands-on research leadership—authoring and leading swarm- and middleware-focused projects like GAMS and MADARA—with pragmatic product and operations work, digitizing field processes and launching cloud-native applications for manufacturing and coatings businesses. His background spans top-tier research institutions (CMU, SEI) and strategic industry roles at Galois, where he focused on trustworthy, formally grounded distributed AI for autonomous systems. Known for bridging formal methods and real-world deployment, he emphasizes scalability, determinism, and resilience in collaborative robotics and cloud systems. Beyond executive strategy, he remains a core developer and PI on long-running open-source efforts for swarm intelligence and real-time distributed middleware, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor and operator-level execution.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)PhD Masters Computer Science, PhD Masters Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (34)
robotics10
multi-agent10
allocation10
agent10
ai10
decision-making9
android9
c-library8
autonomy8
serialization8
cap8
high-performance7
protobuf7
cpp7
3g6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jredmondson/gams
Mar 2015 - Apr 2022
Group Autonomy for Mobile Systems
Contributions:3 releases, 665 commits, 91 PRs in 7 years 2 months
mobile-systemsandroidautonomy
jredmondson/GamsPlugins
Jul 2019 - Sep 2020
UE4 Plugins for GAMS middleware usage
Contributions:2 releases, 144 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 2 months
middlewareue4-pluginsgamsue4
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