James Sutherland
President at Paphus Solutions
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Sutherland is a veteran software engineer and entrepreneur with over 12 years leading AI and bot-focused products as founder and president of Ottawa-based Paphus Solutions Inc. He combines deep enterprise experience—from architecting TopLink/JPA integrations at Oracle and contributing to EclipseLink—with hands-on full-stack work on open-source projects like BOTlibre, including Android and JavaScript SDKs and voice/game integrations. James specializes in building scalable conversational AI, developer tooling, and production-ready SDKs, and he often bridges research-grade algorithms with practical deployable systems. His background in object-relational mapping and early Smalltalk/Java work gives him a rare blend of legacy systems expertise and modern AI product delivery.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BCS, Computer Science, BCS, Computer Science at Carleton University
Github Skills (12)
javas10
javascript10
sdk10
android10
java10
apidoc9
aiml9
api9
android-developer9
android-developers9
chatbot7
bots7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
BOTlibre/BOTlibre
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the Bot Libre project by updating the Android and Javascript SDKs. The commits show package name migrations, the addition of create and edit functionalities, and minor fixes in the Android SDK. Moreover, the user also added a game-sdk.js file, suggesting work on integrating games, and a responsive voice API key. The changes include modification of existing files along with the introduction of a game interface and voice control.
BotLibre/BotLibre
Sep 2015 - Sep 2022
An open platform for artificial intelligence, chat bots, virtual agents, social media automation, and live chat automation.
Contributions:13 reviews, 88 commits, 35 PRs in 7 years 1 month
natural-language-understandingnlupythonbotopen-platform
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