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Distributed Ledger Technology Expert
About James Burke
In 2017, James Burke stood in a decommissioned power substation in Glasgow, watching engineers retrofit legacy grid meters with tamper-proof ledger nodes, no cloud dependency, no central API, just peer-to-peer consensus layered atop physical infrastructure. That pilot became the blueprint for Scotland’s decentralized energy trading framework, where households sell excess solar generation directly to neighbors via cryptographically signed microtransactions validated by Raspberry Pi, based validators. Burke doesn’t evangelize blockchain as a buzzword; he treats distributed ledgers as civil engineering tools, measurable in latency budgets, hardware failure tolerances, and regulatory audit trails. His work on cross-border port logistics with Maersk and the Port of Rotterdam eliminated 32% of documentation delays not by digitizing paper, but by embedding jurisdiction-aware smart contracts that auto-reconcile customs rules across EU, UK, and Swiss regulatory stacks. He speaks in kilowatt-hours, SLA thresholds, and fork-resolution timelines, not hype cycles.
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- “How did your Glasgow energy pilot handle offline validator outages?”
- “What’s the biggest misconception about DLT in supply chain traceability?”
- “Can you walk me through how a smart contract complies with both GDPR and CCPA simultaneously?”
- “Why did you reject Ethereum L1 for the Rotterdam port system?”