James Newton-king
Principal Software Engineer at Newtonsoft
Maryland Heights, Missouri, Singapore
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Top SchoolJames Newton-king is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building developer tools and libraries, currently shaping platform-level work at Microsoft while continuing to steward his long-running Newtonsoft projects. He blends hands-on engineering with product ownership, having founded and maintained widely-used open-source libraries that prioritize clear licensing and ethical use—hence his “don’t be evil” plea. Based in Maryland Heights with international ties to Singapore, he brings a global perspective to API design, serialization, and developer ergonomics. His career traces steady growth from tutoring and early development roles through senior engineering at Intergen to leadership at Microsoft, reflecting deep expertise in .NET ecosystems. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he focuses on delivering reliable, well-documented tooling that reduces friction for other developers.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce (BCA) Information Systems, Bachelor of Commerce (BCA) Information Systems at Victoria University of Wellington
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Github Skills (200)
beautifier10
low-level10
interpreter10
baml10
unity3d-editor10
nodejs10
assembly10
uwp10
csharp-code10
python10
windows10
vbnet10
nosql-database10
unity-editor10
deobfuscator10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
UlyssesWu/ASNR
Sep 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 11 commits in 5 years 7 months
Project-AZUSA/KirikiriSharp
May 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month
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