James Beckett
Senior Software Engineer at Flutter International
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Beckett is a senior software engineer and systems generalist with 25 years of experience building and maintaining high‑availability, performance- and security-sensitive systems across retail and online gaming. He has deep expertise in integration and interoperability, having designed monitoring, collection and alerting platforms using C/C++, Java, Python, Perl, .NET and modern observability stacks like Prometheus, Influx, Grafana and Elasticsearch. Known for investigative debugging in heterogeneous, multithreaded environments, he frequently surfaces design and implementation vulnerabilities and has led PCI and security assessment activities despite not always holding a formal security title. His home lab work—ranging from reverse engineering, JTAG extraction and radio signal analysis to cryptography, Android apps and geodata mapping—feeds practical insights back into production engineering. Comfortable across Linux and Windows and fluent in cloud tooling and IaC (AWS, Terraform, Salt, Jenkins), he combines hands-on low‑level systems knowledge with pragmatic automation and incident escalation design. A licensed amateur radio operator and self-described “map obsessive,” he brings curiosity-driven experimentation to long-term operational reliability.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Montgomery of Alamein School for BoysBSc, Computer Software Engineering, BSc, Computer Software Engineering at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
dashboard10
python10
telegraf10
grafana10
infrastructure10
command-line-tool10
elasticsearch10
rtl-sdr10
remote-execution10
xpath10
influxdb10
visualizations10
streaming10
monitoring10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hackery/elasticsearch
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
restfulsearch-enginedatabaseelasticsearchjava
hackery/telegraf
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 12 days
agentreportingcollectingagent-servergrafana
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