James Garvey
Senior Software Engineer at Raytheon Missiles & Defense
Clinton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Garvey is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building and assuring software for defense and aerospace applications, currently at Raytheon Missiles & Defense. He brings deep embedded systems expertise from BIOS development on Intel platforms and a strong systems programming background in C, C++, and Java. His work spans development and QA for DoD systems as well as scientific-data tooling—evidenced by contributions to NASA-LIS where he integrated land information datasets and resolved cross-platform build and execution issues. Comfortable across low-level firmware and higher-level tooling, he combines pragmatic engineering with attention to reliability and compatibility in constrained environments. A Bowdoin-trained physicist-computer scientist, he pairs analytical rigor with hands-on problem solving in mission-critical contexts.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Nashoba Regional High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics and Computer Science at Bowdoin College
Github Skills (10)
fortran10
data-integration10
file-handling9
netcdf9
git8
version-control8
compile-time7
compilation7
compile7
compiler7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NASA-LIS/LISF
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
Land Information System Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 releases, 43 reviews, 743 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James's contributions focused on importing LDT and LIS data into the repository. The code changes primarily involved importing LDT data from tools/ldt and LIS data from 7/new\_development, including modifications to code related to file handling and processing. They also addressed compiler errors and made adjustments to support serial execution, indicating work on integrating various data sources and ensuring code compatibility.
landsystem-informationland-information-system
jvgeiger/lisf-test
Jun 2021 - Sep 2025
Contributions:1 push, 4 branches in 4 years 4 months
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