# James Boddicker

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesboddicker

I am a professional software engineer with experience as an individual contributor as a software lead. I enjoy working on interesting and challenging projects inside and outside of work.
I'm best reached by my email: lakeboddicker@gmail.com

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present

### Software Engineer II @ Northrop Grumman
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Chicago Area
Responsible for software development of internal research and development project
Worked closely with PM to define feature specifications, leveraged existing code, and created development timeline
Independently identified stakeholders and align cross functional partners toward completion of project
Broke down coding projects into tasks and partner with all applicable teams and partners, and subject matter experts
Communicated with 3rd party software providers to confirm requirements, deadlines, and capabilities
Responsible for onboarding new team members for software group by giving software structure overview and keeping documentation on setting up development environment 
Wrote CUDA code to demosaic, resize and rotate using bilinear interpolation for image processing pipeline
Developed utility to store and organize flight metry data using SQLite3 and C++ for seamless review of programs

### Software Engineer @ BAE Systems, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Created facility usage analysis tool using Python and Tkinter for GUI
Created a React frontend interface to control and automate FPGA testing
Wrote TCP/UDP serialization interface in C++ using protobuf
Wrote Bash script to facilitate Git workflow on local development laptops for team
Experience writing self-documenting code

### Research Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
- Designed and created pH controlled environment to facilitate small scale anaerobic digestion.
- Programed ATmega2560 to read pH sensors and control peristaltic pumps using PID control to maintain pH gradient.

### Research Assistant @ Harvard Forest
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Petersham, Massachusetts
- Designed and tested electrical systems for visible and infrared spectrum monitoring on autonomous tram.
- Programed microcontroller in conjunction with CR1000 datalogger to autonomously record data and control stepper motor.
- Gave a formal presentation on research and participated in poster session.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/james-boddicker-26081a91

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Last updated: 2026-03-22