James French
Senior Software Developer II at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames French is a Senior Software Developer II with over a decade of professional experience building high-performance, object-oriented systems and GPU-accelerated algorithms. Based in Redmond, he currently leads and prototypes research-driven proof-of-concept applications at Microsoft Research, blending machine learning, analytics, and privacy-preserving techniques like homomorphic encryption. His background spans algorithm porting to NVIDIA GPUs (KNN, cross-correlation, multi-dimensional image processing), real-time haptic interfaces, and production features for ML GPU clusters using Linux, Hadoop YARN, and Docker. Comfortable as both a principal engineer and hands-on technical lead, he excels at rapidly learning new technologies and translating research ideas into working demos. Collected across industry and academic R&D roles, his work reflects a strong mix of design documentation discipline and pragmatic implementation of complex numerical and parallel systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Science, Computer Science, Master's of Science, Computer Science at Arizona State University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
monitoring10
snmp10
user-friendly10
network-monitoring10
laravel10
system-monitoring10
php10
rrd10
network10
freebsd9
captive-portal9
bash9
ports9
api9
cli9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
frenchie/librenms
Mar 2020 - Mar 2023
Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
snmpcommunity-basedlicensedgplnetwork-monitoring
frenchie/8-Bit-Computer
Aug 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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