James Simon
Full Stack Team Lead at USC Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Simon is a Full Stack Team Lead and USC CS/Game Design student with eight years of hands-on experience building intelligent, user-focused systems across aerospace, entertainment, and research labs. He’s delivered mission-critical real-time telemetry and ordering platforms that supported world-record student rocket launches, and architected a multimodal ML framework that helped greenlight multimillion-dollar films. Comfortable from embedded C++ to React/TypeScript and scalable backend services, he emphasizes clean UX, robust data collection, and measurable impact. He’s led cross-functional teams in game development and industry settings, running Scrum, code reviews, and CI/CD to keep high-stakes projects on track. Notably, he automated a pipeline that processed 5,000+ screenplays and produced an NLP model that predicted critic scores with 97% accuracy—showing a rare blend of creative-domain ML and production engineering. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs simulation and thermodynamics experience with practical product instincts to turn messy data into intuitive tools.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science BS Game Design BFA, Bachelor's degree Computer Science BS Game Design BFA at University of Southern CaliforniaProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jmfinley2/reprorehab2022
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:23 pushes in 10 days
jmfinley2/github-slideshow
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
A robot powered training repository :robot:
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
roboticsrosrobottraining
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