James Hush
Solutions Engineer at Daily
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolJames Hush is a Solutions Engineer with 14 years of software engineering experience, currently helping teams build voice and video AI agents using Pipecat and Daily's WebRTC platform. He combines hands-on back-end work—contributing to the open-source pipecat framework around environment handling, logging, and audio mixing—with practical systems engineering and CI/DevOps improvements from prior roles. James has scaled teams and processes as an engineering manager, cut incident response times dramatically, and delivered performant web and mobile experiences for high-traffic properties like NFL.com and Info.com. Based in New Taipei, he also speaks and coaches on product and engineering topics and has a track record of turning developer tooling and automation into measurable delivery gains. Notably, he pairs voice/multimodal AI work with deep experience in build pipelines and testing to make real-time applications reliable in production.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.C.S, Computer Science Applied Computing [Honours] Co-op, B.C.S, Computer Science Applied Computing [Honours] Co-op at University of Windsor
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
voice10
python10
ai9
openai8
mobile6
nodejs6
docker6
docker-compose6
protractor6
selenium6
testing6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pipecat-ai/pipecat
Feb 2024 - Jul 2026
Open Source framework for voice agents, multimodal apps, and realtime AI. Maintained by Daily and the community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 30 PRs, 106 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to improving the `pipecat` framework by addressing bugs and enhancing functionality. A significant portion of their work involved resolving issues related to environment variable handling, ensuring proper overrides from `.env` files across various example applications. Further contributions include implementing features such as toggling looping within the soundfile mixer and incorporating improved logging and error handling. They also updated and simplified the translator bot example.
aimultimodalreal-timevoicevoice-assistant
daily-solutions/daily-react-kitchen-sink
Jun 2022 - Jul 2026
Created with CodeSandbox
Contributions:2 reviews, 95 PRs, 246 pushes in 4 years 1 month
reactjavascriptcodesandboxreactjstypescript
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