Jim White
Founder & Local-First AI Evangelist at Wiki3.ai
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJim White is a veteran software engineer and computational linguist with 18 years of experience building developer-facing systems, voice and TTS technology, and local-first AI platforms. Based in Mountain View, he led Phone Line with Google Assistant and SSML audio mixing as a Staff Engineer at Google, and now founders Wiki3.ai to blend JupyterLite UX, local LLMs, theorem-driven development, and agent workflows. A long-time contributor to Groovy core and JSR-223 scripting integrations, he brings deep Java/Groovy expertise and a history of enabling language extensibility in real-world products. His work spans firmware to cloud services and includes unique projects like literate scripting inside office suites and a decades-long effort to build a Program Understanding Program (PUP). With an MS in Computational Linguistics and a knack for tooling that makes complex systems approachable, he combines research-minded rigor with hands-on product engineering.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computational Linguistics, Master's Degree, Computational Linguistics at University of WashingtonUniversity of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
jvm-languages10
datetime10
groovy10
java10
testing10
programming-language9
compiler-compiler9
unit-testing9
compiler9
lucene6
gmail6
algorithm6
google-compute-engine6
fuzzy-search6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
groovy/groovy-core
Feb 2008 - Sep 2014
former home of the groovy programming language, moved to https://github.com/apache/groovy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:190 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the Groovy core library, fixing bugs and adding functionality related to date and time manipulation. Their work involved implementing methods like `minus(Date, Date)` and enhancing the `valueOf` conversion capabilities within the core Groovy library. Furthermore, the user integrated JSR-223 support, which involved integrating scripting engine implementations. The user demonstrated expertise in Java and Groovy by modifying the existing code and adding unit tests.
groovyapachecompilerprogramming-languageinterpreter
jimwhite/SEMST2012
Feb 2012 - Jul 2013
Contributions:40 commits in 1 year 5 months
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