James Waugh
Principal Software Engineer at Fifth Third Bank
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Waugh is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience who blends hands-on engineering, presales consulting, and product-focused delivery across manufacturing and fintech. He architects data pipelines and leadership dashboards—recently enabling millions of COBOL-era records to stream into Kafka and eliminating redundant sprint work through org-wide visibility. A founding engineer at an AI startup, he moved from MVP algorithm design to customer-facing solutions and incident ownership, then led sales enablement at Thought Machine before returning to enterprise engineering. His contributions to developer-facing documentation for the widely watched Secret Network project reflect a habit of making complex systems accessible. Trained in mathematics and linguistics at the University of Chicago, he pairs analytical rigor with an unusual interest in the history and future of economic productivity.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics; Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics; Linguistics at University of Chicago
English, German, Finnish, Tamil, Kinyarwanda
Github Skills (4)
web-content10
documentation10
content-model10
vuepress8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
scrtlabs/SecretNetwork
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
đť•Š The Secret Network
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:38 commits, 5 PRs, 27 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:James's commits primarily involve modifications to documentation files within the `docs` directory of the repository. These changes include updating the sidebar configuration, renaming files, and adjusting the content to describe the Secret Network project. The commits focus on organizing and refining the documentation, enhancing the clarity and completeness of the documentation for developers and users.
tokensproof-of-stakeethereumweb3computational-privacy
jlwaugh/open-sdg-nyc
Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
A starting point for the site repository of an Open SDG platform implementation.
Contributions:819 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
cmspointsdgstarting-point
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