James Laing
Chief Technology Officer at Netglass.io
Highland Park, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Laing is a pragmatic CTO and solutions architect with 11+ years of hands-on experience designing elegant, user-focused systems that span application architecture, large-scale databases, secure medical extranets, and embedded barcode/RFID devices. He has led technology for cultural and commercial organizations—most notably a 15-year tenure as CTO of Ravinia Festival—and currently builds IT departments and custom CRM-driven customer communications at NOBLELIFT North America while advising product architecture at Netglass.io. James is as comfortable crafting cross-browser UIs and complex stored-procedure work on +20TB systems as he is designing wireless mesh networks and large phone-system migrations, favoring simplicity over unnecessary complexity. A student of balance, he pursues "good enough" solutions refined toward perfection, and his eclectic background in Japanese and economics hints at a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Japanese, Economics, BS, Japanese, Economics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (25)
ide10
arduino-ide10
arduino10
pong8
servo7
asp-net-core7
control-library7
captive-portal7
asp-net7
api7
backend7
cisco6
i2c6
eagle5
proxy5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ChicagoRobotics/VS_CRC_VCNL4200
Sep 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 10 months
control-librarycrcvisual-studio
JamieLaing/Simula_BehaviorTree
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 72 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 7 months
roboticsbehavior-treestestingrobottrees
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