James Lyons
Software Engineer at Airbnb
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Lyons is a software engineer specializing in reliability and operability, currently on Airbnb's Site Reliability Engineering team in Palo Alto, tackling reliability, availability, and operability challenges since 2020. With eight years of experience across industry and academia, his background includes NASA Langley, Jefferson Lab, and Stanford, where he transitioned from research roles into production software. He has built end-to-end prototypes and data-driven applications, such as a fully functional Smart Mirror at Stanford and data-collection projects that gathered 129,000 data points from 100 individuals. His technical toolkit spans HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and Objective-C, reflecting hands-on work from UI widgets to automation and analysis. A Stanford CS bachelor, he brings a blend of research rigor and practical engineering to deliver scalable, reliable software in fast-moving environments.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Stanford UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Grafton High SchoolSummer Academy for Mathematics and Science, Summer Academy for Mathematics and Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Thomas Nelson Community College
English
Github Skills (22)
dashboard8
monitoring8
mysql8
visualization7
analytics7
postgres7
grafana7
prometheus7
elasticsearch7
data-visualization7
datasource6
go6
visualize6
grafana-plugin6
influxdb5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jlyons6100/Shoppy
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
jlyons6100/RS-Pattern-Matching
Mar 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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