Justice “JJ” James [pdf]

Education

University of British Columbia September 2021 - Present

• Expected Major: Combined Mathematics and Computer Science
• Expected Graduation: April 2025

Skills

• Experienced in: Nim, HTML/CSS, Java, Linux, Git
• Good at: Python, Racket, Golang, Bash, SQL (injections), Spanish
• Currently Learning: C, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, Latin

Projects

• athena: performant and modular code for a competitive robot (written in Java)
• GitHub: https://github.com/Spartronics4915/2020-InfiniteRecharge
• static-slack: a lightweight static site generator for Slack archives (written in Nim)
• GitHub: https://github.com/j-james/static-slack
• developers-handbook: a guide for software development in FIRST robotics
• GitHub: https://github.com/Spartronics4915/developers_handbook
• covid: tracking the COVID-19 outbreak along the West Coast (written in JavaScript)
• GitHub: https://github.com/j-james/covid | Website: https://j-james.me/covid
• advent-of-code: aesthetic solutions to yearly programming puzzles (written in Python)
• GitHub: https://github.com/j-james/aoc

Experience

High School

FIRST Robotics (Spartronics 4915) September 2017 - June 2021

• Programmer (September 2017 - June 2021)
• Leadership Member (June 2018 - June 2021)
• Programming Lead (June 2019 - June 2021)
• Team Captain (June 2019 - June 2021)

Bainbridge Roller Hockey League (BRHL) Summer 2011 - Summer 2021

• Assistant Coach (Summer 2017 - Summer 2019)
• Referee (Summer 2018 - Summer 2021)

University

UBC CTF (Maple Bacon) September 2021 - Present

• Capture the Flag (CTFs): competitive cybersecurity challenges
• #1 team in Canada
• Helped run and create challenges for MapleCTF, our own CTF

UBC Bionics (BEAR UBC) September 2021 - Present

• UBC Bionics: engineering design team building a bionic arm
• Embedded Programmer

Awards

• National Honor Society member (2017 - 2021)
• National Merit Scholarship Semifinalist (2019)
• Presidential Volunteer Service Award Program (Bronze, 2019)
• Dean's List Semi-Finalist for FRC (2020)
• Washington State Honors (2021)
• SAT Score: 1570/1600
• ACT Score: 35/36