James is an engineer, researcher, and Razzlekhan impersonator. He has been deeply involved in blockchain engineering for 10 years, and is best known for his work on cross-chain mechanism design. He is a co-creator of alloy - the Rust Ethereum library that underpins foundry and reth, and the lead of trevm, a toolchain for designing complex EVM flows. He is currently writing code at init4, a research collective focused on high-impact Ethereum tooling.