James Trott
Chief Architect - Specialized Compute at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Trott is a hands-on engineering leader and chief architect specializing in specialized compute for gaming, media, and streaming at Microsoft, with nine years of focused experience in cloud, distributed systems, hardware-software co-design, and AI. He leads a team of subject-matter experts to solve large-scale customer problems by blending low-level architecture with product-facing engineering and operational considerations. His progression through technical and managerial roles at Microsoft—from SDE II to Chief Architect—reflects deep expertise in scaling teams and platforms for high-throughput, latency-sensitive workloads. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he combines practical delivery instincts with architectural rigor, prioritizing systems that perform in production at Microsoft scale. An unusual strength is his cross-domain fluency: he navigates hardware constraints, media pipelines, and cloud services with equal confidence, enabling pragmatic innovation for major enterprise customers.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (22)
tagging10
detection-model10
labeling9
cntk9
docker8
object-detection8
image-annotation8
deep-learning7
documentation7
computer-vision7
electron6
python5
agent3
chatbot3
game-development3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Jatrott/dockerhub-minecraft-ftb-direwolf20-1.10
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 months
minecraftftbdocker-hubautomated-builddocker
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