James Leitch
Software Engineer (E5) at Consuming Chaos
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Leitch is a performance-focused software engineer and founder with over a decade of experience building native, performance-conscious systems and shipping production software at companies like Meta, Apple, Riot Games, and EA. He blends deep low-level coding expertise with end-to-end ownership of build, deployment, and developer workflows, and currently runs indie game studio Consuming Chaos while holding an E5 engineering role at Meta. An active contributor to rust-analyzer, he has improved IDE diagnostics and path resolution for Rust tooling, highlighting a knack for developer tooling and compiler-adjacent problems. James thrives in cross-discipline teams, enjoys tackling fresh technical challenges, and pragmatically balances product work with entrepreneurial projects — and yes, funds his studio (and sushi habit) through contract work.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Software Engineering, BSc Software Engineering at University of Calgary
Github Skills (9)
path-manipulation10
language-server10
rust-analyzer10
rust10
cargo10
language-server-protocol10
diagnostics10
compiler-design9
json-deserialization9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust-analyzer
May 2020 - Apr 2021
A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 5 PRs, 25 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to the rust-analyzer project by implementing and modifying various features related to diagnostics and code analysis. They worked on refining path resolution for diagnostics, including the introduction of remapping path prefixes. The user also modified code to parse both Cargo and Rustc messages, adding improvements to the flycheck module. Their work shows a focus on improving the IDE's ability to provide accurate and efficient diagnostics to users.
compilerfrontendrustlsp-server
ConsumingChaos/rules_rust
Apr 2023 - Oct 2025
Rust rules for Bazel
Contributions:2 PRs, 186 pushes, 48 branches in 2 years 6 months
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