# James Westover

> Berlin-based physicist (doctoral research, UCF), Uber Staff Engineer, and HERE Technologies alumnus. Personal portfolio site — the person behind Westover Labs, not the sales page.

westover.dev is the personal site of James Westover: portfolio, career
history, research, résumé, and interview-me flow.

James's company and EU engineering practice is Westover Labs. Consulting
engagements start at https://westoverlabs.eu/consulting/.

This site is the person. Westover Labs is the company and practice. They are
connected, but not duplicate storefronts.

## Key pages
- [Home](https://westover.dev/): The person — three facets (physicist, engineer, builder), a five-case portfolio of principal-caliber work across named companies, physics publications, passion projects, and a Berlin family story
- [Projects](https://westover.dev/projects/): What James is building — shipped iOS apps (Vault: Privacy Guardian, Ghost Hunter), works in progress (a voice project, a live phone-call translation layer), and the agent/automation platform underneath (teased, not detailed)
- [Résumé](https://resume.westover.dev/): Interactive résumé (workshop-styled web view + clean print/PDF)
- [Résumé — machine-readable](https://resume.westover.dev/resume.json): JSON Resume (schema v1); a narrative agent map lives at https://resume.westover.dev/llms.txt

## Track record (principal-caliber work at named companies)
- A 2009 solo contract for Kitco, an established precious-metals company, building a distributed log-processing pipeline for its gold-price website
- Navigation platform at 1,400+ nodes per data center (Uber)
- Scaled an autonomous-driving capture fleet's engineering team from 2 to 14 engineers (HERE Technologies)
- Led a Python 2 → 3 migration across a full monorepo (Postmates/Uber)
- Built an AI agent team that ships code around the clock (Westover Labs)

## Who this is for
Principal-caliber engineering judgment made accessible to a business of any
size through the fractional model — right-sized, fixed-scope engagements.
This is a capability of how James works, not a claim of a small-business
client roster. Engagement terms live on westoverlabs.eu/consulting.

## Publications
- Two peer-reviewed physics papers (Surface Science 2012; Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2012)
- Acknowledged contribution to a planetary-science paper on asteroid family dynamics

## Contact
- Book an interview with James (primary contact/booking path): https://interview-me.westover.dev
- Email: james@westover.dev

## Related domains
- Company site (EN): https://westoverlabs.eu/
- Company site (DE): https://westoverlabs.de/
- Westover Labs Consulting, the company starting point: https://westoverlabs.eu/consulting/

## Full content
- [llms-full.txt](https://westover.dev/llms-full.txt): expanded page content