
James Attree
Co-founder, Hulofuse and BrainStack / Robotics & AI, quantum computing, games
Now
Co-founder / Hulofuse
Jan 2025 to nowA social app for making real friends through local events and real-world meetups.
Co-founder / BrainStack
Apr 2025 to nowAn AI-powered hiring platform with AI video interviews and soft-skills analysis.
Game developer / Tank Crew
OngoingA team-based tank combat game. Coordinate, communicate, dominate.
Work experience
AI Intern / Hitachi Solutions
Jun to Jul 2023Helped with AI model experimentation, took part in team meetings and presented a project.
Projects
BB84 quantum key exchangeQuantum computing
BB84 is a way for two people to agree on a secret key using quantum bits, where anyone listening in disturbs the bits and gets caught. My program runs the protocol on a quantum simulator, with clear outputs and settings you can change. There is a version of it to try in the Lab.
Python / Qiskit / Quantum simulation
Oxygen IncomingGame
A single-player, top-down bullet hell with a cartoon style. You play as Amelia, surviving in the wilderness of a foreign planet.
Game design / 2D / Cartoon art
ASL TranslatorComputer vision + NLP
A group project for American Sign Language users: computer vision reads signs, and an NLP module handles the language side.
Python / OpenCV / MediaPipe / spaCy / scikit-learn
Coffee bot on Amazon BedrockLLM agents
A chat agent that takes café orders. Bedrock agents call custom functions to create, edit, clear and confirm each order.
Amazon Bedrock / AWS Lambda / Claude / Python
Mantis BladeHardware
An Arduino-driven build of the mantis blade from Cyberpunk.
Arduino / C++
Desktop AssistantAssistant
A chatty desktop assistant that keeps to-do lists, remembers conversations and holds YouTube playlists.
Java
Leadership
President / Swim Society, University of Buckingham
Ran the society's events twice a week and oversaw everything it did.
Social Secretary / Computer Science Society, University of Buckingham
Managed the society's social media and organised its weekly events.