James Swift
Lead Engineer at GS DSP
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Swift is a Lead Engineer based in Vienna with over a decade of experience designing and shipping cross-platform C++ and C# systems across Windows, macOS, Linux, mobile and WebAssembly. He specializes in distributed messaging, parallel and concurrent programming, UWP, and building test-driven CI pipelines, bringing deep practical knowledge of systems that must perform reliably across time zones. At GS DSP and previously as Lead Software Engineer at PSPDFKit, he’s combined hands-on implementation with interviewing, mentoring, and multi-time-zone team leadership. His background includes long tenures at Altova and roles in finance and embedded speech processing, reflecting a career that moves fluidly between product engineering and performance-critical systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that balance low-level efficiency with maintainability. He holds a first-class BSc in Computer Studies from the University of Derby and is known for turning complex concurrent challenges into testable, deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (1st Hons), Computer Studies, BSc (1st Hons), Computer Studies at University of Derby
Github Skills (159)
cpp10
pdf-document10
mobile-application10
audio10
utm10
pspdfkit10
jailbreak10
vst10
juce10
uwp10
audiounit10
plugin10
react-native-library10
qemu9
test-explorer9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
PSPDFKit/Xamarin-UWP
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
Xamarin example app for PSPDFKit for Windows UWP. (Windows PDF SDK)
Contributions:19 commits, 16 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years
pdfpspdfkitwindowswindows-uwpxamarin
GS-DSP/JUCE
Jul 2023 - Jun 2026
JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, RTAS and AAX audio plug-ins.
Contributions:40 pushes, 2 branches, 33 tags in 2 years 11 months
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