James Picone
Senior Software Engineer at Blackmagic Design
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Picone is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years building high-performance, multithreaded and embedded C/C++ systems for real-time and soft-realtime domains. He currently drives low-level embedded software for A/V products at Blackmagic Design, including filesystem work for cloud-enabled devices and mobile tethering support. Previously he led a small team developing distributed real-time simulation and has deep practical experience with Qt, OpenGL, ICE/DIS, pthreads and deterministic threading models. Known for enjoying interesting engineering problems, he combines hands-on implementation with system architecture and prioritisation experience from team-lead roles. Colleagues rely on him for robust, performance-sensitive code that bridges hardware constraints and user-facing features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering at University of Adelaide
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Github Skills (48)
decks10
ssl9
reference-implementation9
readable9
pkix8
crypto8
steam8
api8
timer8
portable8
spatial-audio7
testing7
nunit7
cryptography7
lock-free6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jamespicone/potw
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Mod for the Sentinels of the Multiverse videogame putting in characters from Worm
Contributions:8 releases, 6 reviews, 227 commits in 1 year 10 months
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hookkshot/ggj2019
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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