James Luth
Chief Technology Officer at OPC Foundation
Greater Pittsfield Area United States
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Top SchoolJames Luth is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with deep expertise in Microsoft Windows development and factory automation, currently serving as CTO at the OPC Foundation. He has led the design and delivery of large-scale, high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems and spearheaded the IEC standardization of OPC UA. A pragmatic architect who keeps his hands in the code, James is known for building prototypes to validate designs and for being the go-to debugger when difficult production issues arise. His background spans kernel-mode drivers, real-time and embedded systems, backend communications, and software interoperability across C++, C#, and .NET ecosystems. Based in the Greater Pittsfield area, he combines standards leadership with practical product architecture experience at companies including Schneider Electric, Invensys, and ICONICS. An uncommon asset is his track record of translating industry-standard specifications into production-grade implementations that have shaped industrial automation interoperability.
8 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (12)
nodeset9
opc8
command-line-utility8
dotnet7
opc-ua6
xml5
ansi-c4
csharp3
plugin3
cas2
addressspace1
editor1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JimLuth/FLC-OfflineEngineering
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:7 pushes in 3 days
Scratch-OPC-Foundation/Scratch
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 issue in 11 days
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