James Percent
Software Engineer at Boombox Events
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJames Percent is a versatile software engineer with 13 years of experience building robust, distributed systems and data platforms across startups, research labs, and enterprise teams. He has deep expertise in clustering, distributed algorithms, database architecture, real-time and asynchronous processing, and applying machine learning to production problems. James has led engineering efforts from kernel-level clustering and flash-caching at EMC to real-time bidding systems at DataXu and modern Elixir/React stacks at Boombox Events. He frequently bridges research and product work—helping neuroscience labs with brain-computer interface tooling and moving Hadoop workloads to Spark for greater scale. Known for pragmatic design, test-driven development, and security-minded systems engineering, he combines low-level systems chops with full-stack delivery. Based in Boston, he balances hands-on coding with consulting and technical leadership for academic and commercial clients.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBS, Computer Science, summa cum laude, BS, Computer Science, summa cum laude at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (23)
machine-learning8
facebook-api8
sbt7
facebook-ads7
ads7
sbt-plugin6
flask6
api6
sdk6
http6
facebook-graph-api6
python6
facebook6
authentication6
eclipse5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jpercent/gestalt
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 20 pushes in 8 months
jpercent/catena
Jun 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:219 commits in 10 months
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