James Xue
Software Engineer at Persona
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Xue is a Software Engineer based in New York with eight years of hands-on experience building systems from internships to senior roles, currently contributing at Persona after a multi-year tenure as Software Engineer III at Nova Credit. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Columbia (with study at UCL) and brings deep low-level programming affinity—particularly in C/C++—paired with a strong interest in computer graphics originating from academic research. James has navigated both product and research environments, from Amazon and Columbia’s graphics lab to startup-operational roles, which gives him a practical lens on turning complex algorithms into production-ready software. Colleagues would describe him as technically curious and versatile: comfortable optimizing core systems and shipping user-facing features while mentoring peers across the stack.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Columbia UniversityUniversity College London
English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (38)
golang8
llm7
llama7
gemma6
go6
ollama6
mistral6
nlp5
hlsl5
keras5
java5
glsl5
shader5
spark4
pytorch4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
James-Xue/FreeCAD
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 5 months
James-Xue/-C-3-
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:43 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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