James Gill
Software Engineer, Spatial Computing
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJames Gill is a software engineer specializing in spatial computing with 11 years of experience building full-stack, production-grade systems—from UI and APIs to distributed infrastructure and petabyte-scale data pipelines. At Facebook he designs high-performance geospatial capabilities for PrestoDB and applies convolutional neural nets to satellite imagery to produce ultra-high-resolution population maps, optimizing workflows that shrink runtimes from days to minutes. He brings deep ML and DevOps chops (Python, Node.js, Java, Objective-C) and a disciplined engineering approach that treats testing as integral to development. Comfortable in small, nimble teams, he blends academic rigor (PhD-level physics/mathematics training) with startup grit—cofounding real-time collaborative tooling and shipping healthcare deep-learning products—so he’s as likely to be optimizing a SQL cluster as staring down a stubborn stack trace.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Physics (String Theory), Ph.D., Physics (String Theory) at University of California, BerkeleyC.A.S.M., Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, C.A.S.M., Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at University of CambridgeBA, Mathematical Physics, BA, Mathematical Physics at Swarthmore College
Stackoverflow
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18answers
10questions
Github Skills (100)
javascript10
keyword10
writers10
nodejs10
declaration10
css10
autoload10
react10
markdown9
emacs-lisp9
wordpress9
emacs9
rest9
site-generator9
python9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thinkhuman/writingwithemacs
Nov 2019 - Apr 2022
Tips, Examples, and Resources for Writing with Emacs
Contributions:48 commits, 4 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 5 months
writersorg-modeemacs-configurationnovelsemacs
thinkhuman/iss-open-api
Dec 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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