James Hartley
Senior Director, Edge AI Engineering at Arm
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Hartley is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience steering multi-site, cross-cultural teams to deliver hardware-software products across client computing, embedded systems, and edge AI. Currently Senior Director of Edge AI and Client Engineering at Arm in Greater Cambridge, he blends hands-on technical depth—from multimedia frameworks and SoC performance analysis to Android graphics SDKs—with strategic partner-facing roles supporting OEMs, silicon vendors and OSVs. He has a track record of building and integrating teams through acquisitions and international collaboration, and of turning competitive intelligence and UX performance lab insights into product differentiators. James’s early career in embedded design and PCB-level delivery gives him uncommon empathy for both silicon and system software constraints, informing pragmatic roadmap decisions. Educated at the University of Cambridge, he pairs academic rigour with a practical bias for shipping complex systems at scale.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, MA, BA, Electrical and Information Sciences Tripos, MEng, MA, BA, Electrical and Information Sciences Tripos at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (2)
arm8
workload-automation5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
jimboatarm/workload-automation-assets
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
workload-automationautomationsoftware-automationassetsworkload
jimboatarm/workload-automation
Apr 2016 - Nov 2016
A framework for automating workload execution and measurement collection on ARM devices.
Contributions:89 commits, 93 PRs, 108 pushes in 6 months
arm
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