James Thomas
Lead Software Engineer at ANS
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Thomas is a Lead Software Engineer based in Austin with a two-decade-long passion for building systems that bridge low-level logic, delightful UIs, and physical hardware. He combines hands-on experience across the full stack—from microcontrollers and assembly-level tinkering to web, mobile, and desktop interfaces—while recently deepening his AI expertise through a Master's in Artificial Intelligence at UT Austin. As founder of Jaybird Software and a leader at companies including Intel, Offerpad, PepsiCo, and ANS, he balances product-minded engineering with team leadership and entrepreneurship. James is particularly interested in the intersection of embedded systems and ML, believing small devices will reshape real-world sensing and actuation. Outside work he brings curiosity from physics, astronomy, and ham radio into engineering problems, often applying principles across domains that others treat as separate. That cross-disciplinary thinking and long arc of hands-on craft make him a pragmatic innovator who enjoys dropping to the metal when necessary.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s of Artificial Intelligence, Master’s of Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at Arizona State University
Github Skills (31)
database-viewer10
xamarin9
xamarin-forms9
database8
user-interface8
databases8
e-mail8
andriod8
microsoft7
maui7
google-maps7
cross-platform7
dotnet7
google-maps-api6
mobile6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jtillyt/Couchbase.Lite.DbViewer
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
A simple database viewer meant to sync with mobile databases remotely or locally
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 91 commits in 1 year 10 months
databasedatabase-viewerdatabasesmobile
jtillyt/OpenSource-Xamarin-SoundMachine
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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