James Twine
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Leonardo DRS
Melbourne, Florida, United States
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SeniorJames Twine is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with over 15 years of professional experience and a lifelong coding pedigree that began at age eight. He specializes in low-level and systems engineering—C/C++/C# across multiple platforms—having architected and implemented financial servers/clients (OFX, FIX, XML), EMS/OMS integrations, order management, filesystems, drivers, P2P/TCP-IP services and gaming platforms. Comfortable both as an individual builder and technical architect, he prefers roles close to the code where he can shape design and lead development teams. His background blends software and hardware fluency—microprocessor theory, electronics, through-hole soldering and growing SMT experience—enabling pragmatic solutions across embedded and enterprise domains. Based in Melbourne, Florida, he brings international experience and a demonstrated track record at firms from ITG to Leonardo DRS and his own consultancy. Notably, his toolset spans legacy and modern languages and architectures (from Z80/68K/ARM to Rust and Python), reflecting a rare breadth that helps bridge legacy systems and modern platforms.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, American Sign Language, Spanish
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Github Skills (30)
open-source10
game-development10
game-engine9
reverse-engineering8
c-programming8
godot8
krypton8
csharp8
windows-forms7
license-key6
rewrite6
dll6
sre5
wpf5
exe5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jtwine/XNA-Command-Console
Feb 2011 - Jul 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
godotengine/godot
Aug 2023 - Nov 2023
Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
Contributions:9 comments, 10 issues in 3 months
godotgamedevgodot-enginegame-development3d-game-engine
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