James Lao
Engineering Architect at Bungie
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Lao is an Engineering Architect with a decade of experience designing scalable multiplayer and cloud services for major gaming platforms. Based in Redmond, he has driven technical vision and shipped critical systems at Microsoft (PlayFab matchmaking, Xbox Live Multiplayer services, and the Short Stack service framework), then continued to shape multiplayer infrastructure at Unity and Bungie. A generalist by specialty, he blends pragmatic engineering with a simplicity-first philosophy—seeking elegant, unexpected applications of ideas rather than added complexity. He pairs deep systems and service architecture experience with hands-on delivery, from developer portals and configuration services to realtime matchmaking and platform integration. Known for turning complex security and platform requirements into deployable, edge-capable services, he excels at making developer-facing tooling both robust and straightforward.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (165)
dashboard10
python10
django-framework10
xadmin10
xls10
django10
adminlte10
csv10
django-admin10
json10
admin10
django-celery-results10
bootstrap10
celery10
php10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jameslao/django-bulk-admin
Oct 2017 - Dec 2021
Django bulk admin enables you to bulk add, bulk edit, bulk upload and bulk select in django admin.
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 2 months
pythonadmindjangobulk-uploaddjango-bulk
jameslao/Geometry
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Auxiliary Lines in Planar Geometry
Contributions:98 commits, 9 PRs, 66 pushes in 3 months
auxiliarygeometrylines
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