About me

I am a Senior Software Engineer with over 12 years of experience building scalable infrastructure and real-time systems. I graduated from Stanford University in 2014 with a B.S. in Computer Science (recipient of the Frederick E. Terman Engineering Scholastic Award).

I spent 9 years at Google on the Google Chat team (2016-2026), where I led major infrastructure engineering efforts and helped scale the product over 10x. My core strengths are in distributed systems, concurrency, and cross-platform architecture.

At Google, I also built multiple AI prototypes using the Gemini API, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity. See my resume below for more detail.

Prior to Google, I worked at Coursera, Palantir, and Meta.

James Nam