James
Hurley
About
Me:
Hi, I'm James. Thanks for visiting my site. I'm a fullstack software and AI engineer living in San Francisco, CA. I grew up in the lovely city of Galway in the west and lived there most of my life. You can read a little bit more about me below, and scroll through the pictures above.
What I like:
Building
Really passionate about all things tech. Most of my time now goes on building with LLMs - agents, tool use and the infrastructure around them. Love clean code and simple designs.
Moving
I played hurling at a high level during school - love keeping fit, going to the gym and eating well.
Exploring
Travelling is a big passion of mine. I have seen a lot of Europe, America, and been to Dubai + Cape Town.
Connecting
Love socialising and having the craic over a few pints, and especially meeting new people.
Tunes
Current rotation
A soundtrack for the road
A selection of what I have been listening to lately.
Experience
Senior ML Engineer, SurveyMonkey
San Francisco, CA
Supporting DS to run ML algorithms in production
AI | Data Science | ML Platform | Python
Growth Engineer, Momentive (formerly SurveyMonkey)
Dublin, Ireland
Growth Hacking, Experimentation, Development, Product, Interviewing
React | GraphQL | Python | Docker
Software Engineer, Ex Ordo
Galway, Ireland
Full stack feature development, running/managing releases
Padrino | Ruby | Backbone.js | JQuery
Electronic + Computer Engineering
Galway, Ireland
Bachelor of Engineering, 83% degree average
Leaving Certificate, Yeats College
Galway, Ireland
Achieved maximum score of 625 points
Skills
AI & ML
AI & LLM Engineering
- LLM apps & agents
- Tool use / MCP servers
- Evals & prompt design
Python
- Python 3.11+
- FastAPI
- Pydantic
- Poetry & pytest
Product Engineering
TypeScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js App Router
- Node.js
Web Development
- Responsive design
- Accessibility
- Tailwind & MUI
- SEO
A/B Testing
- Experimentation
- Growth engineering
- Metrics & analysis
Systems
Cloud & Serverless
- AWS Lambda
- API Gateway
- SQS & SNS
- S3 & DynamoDB
Infrastructure & CI/CD
- Terraform
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Monitoring & alerting
System Design
- Event-driven services
- API design
- Built from the ground up
Databases
- Postgres
- DynamoDB
- Schema design
- Migrations
Engineering Craft
Testing
- pytest
- Vitest
- Playwright
- CI test pipelines
Git
- GitHub
- Code review
Algorithms & Data Structures
Contact
Have a project, an idea, or just want to say hello? Email is the quickest way to reach me.
You can also catch me for a pint in
GalwayorSan Francisco
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