Justice “JJ” James [pdf]

I like general mathematics, distributed systems, and Taylor Swift.

email: jj@j-james.me
website: j-james.me
github: j-james

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, Rust, Golang, Bash, SQL (injections), Spanish
Currently Learning: C, Racket, 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

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