Jim Boswell
Principal Computer Toucher at Hook Studios
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Boswell is a pragmatic principal engineer with 16 years of experience delivering large-scale web and media systems, currently untangling a sprawling Python and Google Cloud data platform at a stealth startup in Los Angeles. His career spans front-end spectacle (pre-WebGL canvas tricks and in-house frameworks) through backend systems for high-volume, multilingual user-generated content, using Python, Ruby, PHP and Node across AWS and GCP. He’s repeatedly turned messy creative pipelines into reliable, automated processes—writing tooling from JavaScript for Photoshop to numpy/scipy-driven media transforms and multi-instance Python scrapers. Comfortable optimizing eye-watering SQL, tuning recommendation algorithms, and teaching stuck queues to heal themselves, Jim pairs hands-on coding with practical ops and delivery focus. Colleagues would describe him as irreverently witty but deeply effective at making complex web and media engineering work repeatable at scale.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Multimedia, Diploma, Multimedia at KvB College of Visual CommunicationCertificate IV, Broadcast and Title Design, Certificate IV, Broadcast and Title Design at AFTRSHigher School Certificate, High school kid stuff, Higher School Certificate, High school kid stuff at Chevalier College
Github Skills (34)
webgl10
javascript10
canvas10
svg10
3d10
command-line-tool10
augmented-reality9
physics-engine9
virtual-reality9
physics9
file-manager9
webgpu9
firebase9
rigid-bodies9
react8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yellcorp/floppy-recovery
Feb 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:144 commits, 14 pushes in 3 years 8 months
yellcorp/Yellib
Nov 2009 - Feb 2012
Contributions:499 commits in 2 years 3 months
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