James X is a Member of Technical Staff with a decade of hands-on experience building ML systems and multimodal applications, currently working on Imagine at xAI. His recent roles span fast-paced research and engineering internships and staff positions across Snap, Cartesia, Tesla, and CME Group, with projects ranging from quantization and video generation to realtime audio and Dojo infrastructure. He brings practical production experience moving models and systems from research prototypes into real-time, deployable pipelines. Based in the United States and shaped by rigorous STEM training at Thomas Jefferson HS and UVA, he combines low-level system work with ML research fluency. A disciplined practitioner—summed up by his GitHub motto “Practice makes perfect!”—he favors iteration and empirical validation over theoretical perfection. Outside core projects he tends to bridge multimodal research and systems engineering, making models run reliably at scale.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Contributions:60 commits, 1 PR, 83 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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