James Fowler
Principal at Open Sea Consulting
Marietta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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SeniorJames Fowler is a Principal software engineer and consultant with 10+ years of recent experience (and decades overall) delivering high-performance C++ and Python systems for finance, telecom, and embedded markets. He specializes in reactive real-time frameworks, lock-free multithreading, performance tuning, and integrating third-party commercial and open-source components across distributed environments. James has consulted for major firms including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Tower Research, and Microsoft, and brings hands-on expertise in CISP/PCI compliance, encryption/PKI, and embedded platforms such as ESP32. Equally comfortable refactoring legacy codebases and designing new low-latency systems, he pairs deep systems-level knowledge with practical tooling for logging, profiling, and visualization. Based in Marietta, GA, he runs Open Sea Consulting and is open to targeted collaborations in algorithmic trading or embedded systems. An uncommon strength: long experience bridging financial trading environments and constrained embedded devices, enabling pragmatic, performance-first solutions across very different platforms.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (15)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
james-fowler/WarLayerTips
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
james-fowler/synergy
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
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