James is an embedded systems engineer, with a history of working on software for a wide range of systems, including safety-critical avionics, and rapidly prototyped IoT systems. James is a founding member of the Rust Embedded Working Group, as well as a founder of Ferrous Systems, a consultancy focused on systems development in Rust, with a speciality in embedded systems development.

James is working hard to bring Rust to new places in the embedded domain, including efforts to qualify the Rust language for use in safety-critical systems through the Sealed Rust initiative, and building easy to use open source tooling in the Knurling-rs project.