James Pearce
Senior Director, Production R&D at Grass Valley
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Pearce is a seasoned engineering leader and Director of Production R&D with over two decades of experience building media-centric software, from embedded clients to cloud-native editing and rendering pipelines. He has repeatedly turned complex user requirements into patent-pending products—most recently a browser-based, frame-accurate video player and a non-linear proxy editor that replicate desktop editing power in the cloud. Technically fluent across Typescript, C++, C#, .NET and modern web stacks, he blends deep UI/UX sensibility with low-level media, compression and transport expertise. As a hands-on architect he built plugin frameworks and migration paths that unlocked ecosystems and customer adoption, and led teams to deliver high-performance, frame-accurate streaming and render engines. An active contributor to notable open-source work such as CefSharp, he’s comfortable moving between full-stack feature development and core engine refactors. Based in the UK with a first-class Computer Science degree from Manchester, he pairs inventive problem-solving (multiple patents) with a practical focus on shipping reliable, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (1st Class Hons) Computer Science, BSc (1st Class Hons) Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (13)
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app-framework10
asp-net10
web-framework10
wpf10
dotnet10
browser10
csharp10
cefsharp10
dotnet-core10
cplus9
cpp9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cefsharp/CefSharp
May 2015 - Aug 2017
.NET (WPF and Windows Forms) bindings for the Chromium Embedded Framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 9 PRs, 66 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the CefSharp project by implementing features related to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) integration within .NET applications. Their work included addressing a `NullReferenceException` issue within the `ChromiumWebBrowser` control, enhancing popup handling, and integrating offscreen rendering capabilities, all while updating example applications. They also made several code style adjustments and refactorings, improving code stability and functionality within the WPF and Core projects.
chromiumdotnetwindowswindows-formswpf
jamespearce2006/CefSharp
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
xamldotnetwindowscsharpchromium
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