J Bay
Senior Internal Tools Engineer & DevOps at Samsara
Carbondale, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJ Bay is a Senior Internal Tools Engineer and DevOps specialist with 11 years of experience building Python-first web architectures and integrations for companies like Samsara and Slack. He excels at back-end systems using Django, Flask, Postgres and Neo4j, and has a knack for Slack-first tooling and chat-bot workflows from his Staff Engineer tenure. Comfortable across NodeJS and cloud platforms, he combines hands-on coding with operational ownership to ship internal developer tools and automation. Early work on enterprise reporting, order-management systems, and a custom Python-Neo4j OGM shows a pragmatic focus on modeling and data-driven solutions. Based in Carbondale, IL, he treats coding as both profession and hobby, which fuels continuous experimentation and practical craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
G. Dip., Philosophy, G. Dip., Philosophy at University of St AndrewsBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Tennessee at Martin
English
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Github Skills (43)
git10
python10
php10
version-control10
neo4j-database10
gitignore9
django9
sqlalchemy9
neo4j9
cypher9
nodes8
oauth2-provider8
graph-drawing8
edges8
graph7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
TwoBitAlchemist/NeoAlchemy
Jun 2016 - Oct 2021
A microframework for Neo4J inspired by SQLAlchemy
Contributions:189 commits, 102 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
neo4j-databasepythonmicroframeworksqlalchemyneo4j
TwoBitAlchemist/twobitalchemist.github.io
Nov 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 8 months
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