James Renwick
Staff Software Engineer & Team Lead at Arm
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Renwick is a Staff Software Engineer and Team Lead based in Cambridge with 12 years' experience building low-level, performance-focused C++ systems and GPU instrumentation. At Arm he leads a 5-person team, drives cross-organizational debug and performance tooling, and runs hiring and training programs for interns through experienced engineers. He combines hands-on implementation of complex low-level drivers and diagnostics with product-owner style requirements capture and prioritisation, having also authored internal tools and run GPU-wide conferences and workshops. Earlier roles span embedded C APIs, large message-processing systems, and scalable backend design, reflecting strong systems-level instincts and practical integration experience. Known for clean code and thorough documentation, he also regularly designs interview processes and technical specifications, making him as effective at building teams as at shipping critical infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st Class, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st Class at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (48)
json7
zynq6
csharp5
chisel5
scala5
kotlin5
development-kit4
panorama4
android4
rocket-chip4
dotnet4
fpga4
rocket4
high-performance4
json-editor3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jsren/DebugOS
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 7 months
jsren/EUMM-Website-Old
Feb 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch, 3 comments in 3 years 6 months
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