James Jia
Engineering Manager at Robinhood
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Jia is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building infrastructure, embedded systems, and blockchain-enabled products, currently leading stock tokenization efforts at Robinhood. He previously scaled teams and release infrastructure at dYdX and Google, and worked on EC2 storage virtualization at AWS, giving him deep experience across distributed systems and production release pipelines. Known as a quick learner and collaborative leader, he blends hands-on engineering with people management to turn complex technical domains into shipping products. Based in the United States and grounded in a Computer Engineering degree from UIUC, he brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach and a curiosity for intersecting areas like ML and embedded systems that informs cross-domain solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Naperville North High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (40)
python9
typescript9
parsing9
smart-contracts8
api8
ethereum8
cryptocurrency8
nodejs7
fault-tolerant7
chrome7
blockchain7
cryptography7
firefox7
crypto7
replication6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dydxprotocol/v4-documentation
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:61 reviews, 81 PRs, 110 pushes in 1 year 1 month
dydxprotocol/node-service-base-dev
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Shared dev dependencies, development configuration, and utilities for Node libraries and services.
Contributions:4 reviews, 14 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 4 months
dependenciesdev-dependenciesdevnodejstypescript
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