Summary
James 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