James Jia
Software Engineering Manager at Reddit, Inc.
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Jia is a software engineering manager with 13 years of experience building payments, creator monetization, and media infrastructure at high-growth consumer platforms. Currently at Reddit, he leads engineering for payments and collectible avatars after driving backend efforts for Reddit’s Collectible Avatars as a senior engineer. He’s shipped performance-critical systems at Twitch (notably a multi-region upload service that cut upload latency and abandonment) and built secure wallet and key-management services at Interstellar using Rust and Intel SGX. As a founding engineer and later manager at NEWNESS he guided architecture for creator-focused commerce and engagement features like gifting, private streams, and Shopify integrations. Based in San Diego and holding MEng and BA degrees from UC Berkeley, he blends hands-on systems work with product-driven leadership across payments, video, and crypto-adjacent stacks.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Engineering, Computer Science, Masters of Engineering, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at UC Berkeley
English, Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (70)
stellar10
horizon10
treemap9
bundle8
cryptocurrency8
webpack-plugin8
plugin8
blockchain8
webpack-loader8
sparse8
webpack-bundle-analyzer7
lambda7
mining7
spark-ml7
interactive7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
leonguan/cs61b
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:45 commits in 24 days
jamesjia94/BIDMach
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
cudacpudeep-learninggpuaccelerated
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