James Little
Engineering Manager at Stripe
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJames Little is a full-stack developer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with 11 years of experience focused on delivering polished user experiences and interfaces. Currently at Stripe, he blends front-end UX sensibilities with back-end systems work, often reaching into Rust and WebAssembly to squeeze out performance. His notable open-source work includes contributing core indexing and search data structures to Stork, an impressively fast static-site search engine, where he built hashmapping, index writers, and WASM hooks. Comfortable across the stack, he favors pragmatic, high-performance solutions that improve real user interactions. Colleagues know him for turning nuanced UX requirements into efficient, well-structured implementations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Milton AcademyBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Bowdoin College
Github Skills (8)
algorithm10
algorithms10
rust10
wasm-pack9
rust-wasm9
webassembly9
hashtable9
web-development8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jameslittle230/stork
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
🔎 Impossibly fast web search, made for static sites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 13 reviews, 345 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the development of a fast web search engine designed for static sites using Rust. Their work included creating essential components like a hashmapper, writing code to write an index file, and integrating WebAssembly hooks for front-end interaction. Furthermore, the user implemented a search functionality within the application and improved the data structures for search, resulting in a more performant index.
storkstatic-sitesrustwebassemblyweb-search
jameslittle230/jameslittle-dot-me-eleventy
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
My personal website.
Contributions:1 review, 30 commits, 96 PRs in 2 months
reactnextjsstatic-siteeleventy
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