James Ferguson
Senior Software Engineer at IonQ
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJames Ferguson is a Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years delivering pragmatic, well-tested systems across startups and established companies, currently contributing to IonQ. He thrives on turning chaotic early-stage problems into maintainable full stacks, combining Python asyncio backends, C++ firmware, and live TypeScript/React UIs. A hands-on engineer comfortable from kernel plumbing to browser websockets, he has built control systems for microfluidics and 3D microscopes, authored real-time instrumentation middleware, and implemented multi-loop PID controllers with OpenCV-driven metrics. Known as a collaborative, non-ego mentor, he often steps into technical leadership while keeping a coder’s eye for elegant design and automation. Based in Somerville, MA, he blends deep Linux tooling fluency with a taste for code craftsmanship and measurable operational observability. An unusual strength is his track record of shipping both hardware-near C/C++ systems and high-level Python/FastAPI orchestration in the same product.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of York
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Github Skills (31)
yasnippet9
emacs9
isearch8
emacs-lisp8
ivy7
python-bindings7
frontend7
elisp6
ssh6
api6
pyzmq6
gdata6
grep6
github6
ssh-keys6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jferguson-gnubio/yasnippet-snippets
Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
yasnippetvscode-extensionlanguagessnippets
WJCFerguson/pebble_fuzzy_plus
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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