James Craig Burley is a Sole Proprietor at James Craig Burley Software Architect. He possess expertise in perl, software development, unix, linux, object oriented design and 29 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "James is the person you need on staff if you need an application or system that hits all the key points: secure, robust, disciplined and well documented at every stage of the game. He is the first person I've ever seen do it all at a world-class level across the board- and this includes my 15 years of experience in a role where assessing application implementation and design for security and code quality was my core competency. I had the pleasure of working with him during a long career at a company where security and stability were of the utmost importance- and there was no time or appetite for fixing broken designs or implementations later. He proved an invaluable resource in secure/robust application/system design as well as implementation- i.e. hands dirty, head down, writing code- not a man who herds people. While he happily consults with specialized in-house security teams, it's usually just a friendly discussion because when he presents what he has put together for a formal security design and implementation review, it becomes clear that there's nothing more to be done by the security engineers. I've seen him write at least 1 state aware fuzzer, capable of identifying both obvious bugs, like memory corruption as well as much more nuanced and subtle ones, like state dependent race conditions- things that went well beyond the quality of some of the best application security engineers I've known in that specialized field. In many cases, he's identified obscure bugs that usually take a team of people to reproduce, let alone discover and fix. And of course, in the case of most developers, it's the customer who is the unlucky one who suffers the first manifestation of bugs like the ones James has rooted out proactively before release. Whether you need an experienced developer who knows internals and why/how they matter in context of the bigger picture (remember he built g77!) or a software architect who understands that design and implementation need to be cohesive and complementary- he'll fit in wherever you have gaps. Or, he can be your whole team. Or, put another way, if security and robustness, disciplined coding style, attention to both high-level and low-level design and implementation details are needed, you've found the right person. You can have application security specialists and secure design specialists review his code if you like, but this all comes pre-packaged with his work product. He embodies the ideal software engineer, constantly striving for "correctness" in every aspect- and he (as well as his employer, colleagues and customers) reaps all of the well earned benefits that come along with it."