James Slocum
Software Development Enginner III at Audible
Trenton, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Slocum is a systems-oriented software engineer with 13 years of experience building low-level Linux software and large-scale consumer services, currently leading architecture for Audible's Consumer Domains. He has deep expertise in C, C++, Java, and Rust, and has designed everything from MPEG-2 transport demuxers and SCTE-30/SCTE-35 libraries to authentication and token-minting platforms using OAuth2/OpenID Connect. James bridges embedded real-time video systems and cloud services, having improved both ad insertion infrastructure and user-facing Checkout/Library experiences at Audible. He has led cross-functional teams as a staff engineer focused on secure authentication at Beyond Identity and enjoys tackling “difficult” problems, often teaching and publishing tutorials to share knowledge. Based in Trenton, NJ, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with practical wins like dramatically accelerating a distributed statistical computation via a 130-node cluster.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Github Skills (19)
rest-server8
memory-bandwidth6
https-server5
restful-api5
http-server4
ipv64
rest-api4
proc3
statsd3
c-library3
http3
cross-platform2
c-programming2
cli2
cpp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
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