James Hunt
Director at Vivanti Consulting
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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SeniorJames Hunt is a Senior System Software Engineer with 16+ years building low-level, cloud-native and virtualization software, currently at NVIDIA after a decade at Intel where he was an original developer of Intel Clear Containers and Kata Containers. He is fluent in C, Go and Rust (both sync and async), and his work earned Intel’s highest honor, reflecting deep expertise in secure container runtimes and systems programming. Earlier he maintained the Upstart init daemon at Canonical and authored the Upstart Cookbook, demonstrating long-standing stewardship of foundational open-source infrastructure. James is also a dedicated educator—creating beginner Python courses for children and teaching Go and Rust to students and internal teams—showing an unusual blend of production-grade engineering and pedagogy. He champions testing, documentation and coding standards across formats from Markdown to Troff, making quality and reproducibility a constant in his projects.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (96)
kvm10
security10
vim10
runc10
specification10
vms10
isolation10
cri-o10
k8s10
firecracker10
qemu10
ecosystem10
virtualization10
golang10
rust10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jamesodhunt/utfout
Sep 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
jamesodhunt/jamesodhunt.github.io
Sep 2017 - May 2023
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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