James Iry
Head Of Programming Language And Runtime Tools at Stripe
Richmond, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Iry is a seasoned engineering leader and programming languages expert based in Richmond, California, currently heading Programming Language and Runtime Tools at Stripe. He has built and scaled an organization from single digits to ~50 engineers that drives developer productivity across Ruby, JavaScript, Scala, Python, Java, and Go, and helped rollout Sorbet to type 80% of Stripe’s Ruby codebase. James blends deep hands-on compiler and runtime experience—having worked on scalac optimizations and a native Ruby compiler that improved compute and latency—with executive-level product and process leadership. He has a long track record of shipping production tooling and infrastructure, from JDWP proxies and request tracing at Salesforce to data-platform work at Concurrent, Inc. Equally comfortable in C, OOP, and functional Scala, he’s known for turning compiler-level ideas into practical developer-facing systems. A pragmatic tinkerer who once “Google-bombed” himself as ‘mostly wrong,’ he still loves every part of the software lifecycle—even bugs.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at El Paso
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closures
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java
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variadic-functions
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operator-overloading
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generics
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scala
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Github Skills (24)
groovy10
operator-overloading10
scala10
checker10
java9
ruby9
pattern-matching9
sorbet9
variadic-functions9
parsing9
bytecode9
covariance9
language-design9
closures9
generics9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
sorbet/sorbet
May 2019 - Jun 2019
A fast, powerful type checker designed for Ruby
Contributions:5 commits, 1 branch in 26 days
type-checkersorbetrubychecker
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