James Gress
Director - Advanced Technology Center Emerging Technologies Portfolio Lead At Accenture
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Gress is a seasoned technology leader with over 27 years in IT who currently directs Accenture’s Advanced Technology Center Emerging Technologies portfolio, driving innovation in Generative AI, Metaverse, AI-assisted coding, DevOps, IaC, CloudOps, and cloud-native advisory. He has a proven record of building and scaling high-performance teams and delivering complex, client-facing solutions from his long tenure at Accenture across roles from developer to senior management. A certified Technology Architect and Microsoft-certified developer, James blends hands-on technical depth with strategic foresight to help enterprises adopt disruptive technologies. He pairs a pragmatic engineering background—including early experience as an avionics technician in the US Marine Corps—with a passion for continuous learning and public speaking. Based in Greater Tampa Bay, he is equally committed to mentoring colleagues and contributing to the broader tech community. An interesting facet of his profile is the combination of military avionics training and decades of cloud and DevOps leadership, which informs his systems-level approach to emerging tech adoption.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Aviation Electronics, Aviation Electronics at USMCAssociate in Science Degree, Computer Programming, Associate in Science Degree, Computer Programming at Hillsborough Community College
Github Skills (11)
azure-ai10
openai9
azd-templates9
chatgpt9
azure9
retrieval-augmented-generation8
docker-machine8
large-language-models8
azure-openai7
gitter4
prompt-engineering1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jmgress/langchain
Nov 2023 - Jan 2026
⚡ Building applications with LLMs through composability ⚡
Contributions:19 PRs, 28 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 2 months
jmgress/Quizly-1
Jun 2025 - May 2026
Quizly
Contributions:15 reviews, 93 PRs, 79 pushes in 10 months
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