James Reed
Co-Founder at Fireworks AI
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJames Reed is a Co-Founder and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years building compilers, numeric and high-performance software across CPU/GPU and distributed systems, with deep experience moving from silicon to Python. He led foundational PyTorch projects at Meta—authoring torch.fx, driving compiler-based distributed parallelism, and shipping Intel CPU quantization—turning research primitives into production-deployed ML infrastructure. James co-founded Fireworks AI to bring that systems-level expertise to product, and he contributes to notable open-source tooling such as the awesome window manager, showing an attention to polish and UX as well as low-level performance. Comfortable designing HW/SW co-design and developer-facing abstractions, he’s known for redefining interfaces that connect modern processors to user workflows.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering Minor in Computer Science at Virginia TechAdvanced Studies Diploma, Advanced Studies Diploma at Chantilly High
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Github Skills (8)
lua10
awesomewm10
window-manager10
command-line-interface8
documentation7
xorg5
c174
c114
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
awesomeWM/awesome
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
awesome window manager
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:James made contributions to the Awesome Window Manager, focusing on improving various aspects of the user interface and core functionality. The user fixed bugs in the taglist and layout handling, and updated the documentation. They also addressed a misspelling and corrected flags used for the command-line options, indicating a strong focus on refining both the code and the user experience.
luatitlebarfloatinglinuxwindow
jcrd/sessiond
Dec 2018 - Sep 2022
Standalone X session manager for systemd-logind
Contributions:8 releases, 273 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 9 months
pythonx11graphical-sessionssystemdsystemd-targets
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