Summary
James Sedgwick is a Principal Systems Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance infrastructure and distributed systems across companies from Facebook and Lyft to Google and startups. He has deep expertise in C++, networking, storage and deployment tooling—authored async C++ libraries at Facebook, contributed to Envoy integration at Lyft, and worked on storage infrastructure at Google. Currently leading systems work at LastMile AI after founding product-focused engineering at Flora Systems, he blends low-level performance engineering with pragmatic production delivery. Known for improving developer productivity and operational parity, he pairs on-call experience with open engineering practices and a track record of shipping critical backend services. Based in New York, he also ties academic roots from Brown into applied systems work, bringing an unusual combination of library design and shipping large-scale services.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Brown University