Chief Technology Officer
2018 - PRESENTFitzyTV- Developed an internet TV platform that aggregated a user's streaming TV subscriptions into a single UI across all of their devices.
- Wrote Android mobile, Android TV, FireTV, Chromecast, and iOS applications, as well as the backend deployed across Google Cloud Platform and DigitalOcean.
- Developed growth engine with programmatic Facebook ads and email marketing that led to over 100,000 registered users.
Technologies: Android, FireTV, Chromecast, JavaScript, React Native, Java, Docker, GCP, DigitalOcean, CDN, VideoLead Software Engineer - Android Client
2010 - 2017ItsOn, Inc.- Led team which built a mobile policy enforcement and billing engine from the ground up using the Android OS. This entailed Android framework hooks for telephony operations, kernel modules for data classification/enforcement and a user application.
- Led several projects to improve the mobile user experience, including daily user testing sessions with quick turnaround/feedback cycles.
- Shipped software embedded in over 8 million Android devices.
Technologies: Java, Android, AOSPSoftware Engineer
2008 - 2010Hewlett Packard- Recruited as the software design engineer for the Digital Telephony Initiative (DTI), a small start-up group within HP. The DTI device consisted of a 7-inch touch screen running embedded Linux on an ARM processor.
- Designed and coded the user interface for HP TV's and Digital Media Adapters, including leading development work on the first YouTube application for Smart TVs.
- Recruited as one of the first engineers for the emerging software business, which was tasked with developing a new operating system based on Android for HP's small form-factor devices. Ported Android OS (AOSP) to an i386 netbook.
Technologies: Java, JavaScript, Flash, Android OS, Smart TV
James Fitzgerald
Software Engineering Developer in San Francisco, CA, United States
Member since January 21, 2019
James is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and software engineer with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He has developed several full-stack applications from the ground-up, but specializes in mobile application development, especially Android, and has shipped applications on millions of devices. Throughout his career he’s taken several projects from sketches to full product implementations. He prides himself on his can-do, get-things-done attitude.
James is now available for hire
Portfolio
- FitzyTVAndroid, FireTV, Chromecast, JavaScript, React Native, Java, Docker, GCP...
- ItsOn, Inc.Java, Android, AOSP
- Hewlett PackardJava, JavaScript, Flash, Android OS, Smart TV
Experience
- Software Engineering 13 years
- Java 11 years
- AOSP 11 years
- Android 11 years
- JavaScript 10 years
- Google Cloud 5 years
- Chromecast 5 years
- React Native 3 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Java, Android, Android TV, AOSP, FireTV, Embedded Systems, Javascript, Node.js, React, React Native, Docker, Google Cloud, AWS, DigitalOcean
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed was building an Internet TV platform from scratch with a community of over 100,000 users across multiple devices and operating systems.
Employment
Experience
- FitzyTV (Development)https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fitzytv.android
FitzyTV is an internet TV platform that aggregates your streaming channels into a single UI and allows users to time-shift live internet TV with our Cloud DVR. Developed full-stack of the platform, including Android, Android TV, FireTV, Chromecast, and iOS apps, and the back-end deployed on Google Cloud and Digital Ocean.
Skills
Languages
Java, JavaScript, HTML, HTML5, CSSPlatforms
Android, Android TV, DigitalOcean, Docker, Shopify, WordPressStorage
MySQL, Google CloudOther
AOSP, Software Engineering, Chromecast, Shopify Customizations, AWSFrameworks
React Native, GWTLibraries/APIs
FFmpeg, ReactTools
Apache TomcatParadigms
Test-driven Development (TDD)
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering2002 - 2006University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame, IN
