James Gan
Senior Software Engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bellevue, Washington, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Gan is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building developer infrastructure and scalable JVM-based systems, currently driving Developer Infrastructure at Affirm. He combines hands-on engineering—migration to OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes/Garden environments, and SOX automation—with a strong research and teaching background from Georgia Tech and UW. A founding member of PayPal’s Blockchain Research Group, he uncovered a $25M ICO vulnerability and organized high-profile blockchain talks, demonstrating uncommon depth in both security research and community leadership. James also has a track record of nonprofit and education impact, having cut costs by 40% for Microsoft Philanthropies’ TEALS program while boosting participation. He holds an MSCS from Georgia Tech and a BA from Cornell, and blends academic rigor with practical product delivery across startups, enterprise, and research settings. Notably, his work spans accessibility-focused CAD research and production-scale reactive programming rollouts at PayPal.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS (Not Completed) Technology Innovation, Master of Science - MS (Not Completed) Technology Innovation at University of WashingtonDual Enrollment Politics and General Education, Dual Enrollment Politics and General Education at Bellevue CollegeMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics Computer Science at Cornell University
German, French, English, asl
Github Skills (80)
spin10
campus10
sdk9
testing9
instrumentation9
opentelemetry9
caching9
java-agent9
java9
developer-tools8
pong8
splunk8
tractor8
visual-studio8
distributed-tracing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jamesylgan/whaleprotocol
Dec 2018 - Feb 2021
Landing site for The Whale Protocol whitepaper
Contributions:4 reviews, 45 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 3 months
whalewhitepaper
gixhswlab1ppm/ppm
Jan 2019 - May 2021
HW/SW Lab I Project: Ping-pong Master
Contributions:5 PRs, 39 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
pongping-pongmasterpinglab
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