Jim Anderson
Senior Firmware Architect at Real Python
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Anderson is an Associate Professor of Instruction in Computer Science at the University of South Florida with 11 years of professional teaching and engineering experience and a Ph.D. in Computer Science. He designs hands-on curricula across languages (C, C++, Rust, Java, Python, C#) and DevOps tools, embedding practical skills—Docker, Kubernetes, multiple DBMSes—into courses so students graduate with resume-ready experience. Equally at home refactoring concurrent Python code and teaching low-level memory and forking concepts via Linux containers, he combines long-term corporate coding experience with academic leadership as director of multiple programs and ABET contributor. Active in broadening participation initiatives, he brings a rare mix of systems-level expertise and pragmatic pedagogy informed by both research and real-world software practice.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
EE, VLSI CAD, EE, VLSI CAD at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado at Boulder
Github Skills (15)
python10
multithreading10
concurrency10
eventsource9
thread9
queue9
asyncio9
event-sourcing9
event-emitter9
hyper-threading9
threaded9
python-multiprocessing9
eventing9
multiprocessing9
multi-process9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
realpython/materials
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Bonus materials, exercises, and example projects for our Python tutorials
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 56 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed code related to concurrency and multithreading in Python, creating examples that demonstrated different approaches like threading, multiprocessing, and asyncio. The user also refactored and reformatted existing code for better readability, specifically addressing line length issues. Further contributions included creating examples showcasing various synchronization primitives like locks, events, and queues, essential for managing concurrent access to shared resources. The user appears to be focused on demonstrating and explaining different concurrency patterns in Python.
python
jima80525/vimconfig
May 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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