James Bibby
Staff Software Engineer at Freelance
Springwater, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Bibby is a seasoned staff software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience and over nine years focused on distributed systems at Datadog, where he builds real-time data platforms that turn high-volume signals into reliable, actionable intelligence. He specializes in cloud-native, high-performance systems using Go and Python and technologies like Kafka, Redis, and RocksDB, and combines technical leadership with practical AI adoption through internal enablement. James has a long track record leading teams and scaling platforms across startups and enterprise environments—from CTO and director roles to platform engineering at Udacity and large e-commerce systems—bringing strong product sensibility to infrastructure decisions. Based in Springwater, Ontario, he pairs an MBA-backed strategic perspective with deep engineering craft, and his freelance and consulting work underscores an ability to move quickly across clouds and stacks to deliver operational excellence.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Entrepreneurship Finance and Management, MBA Entrepreneurship Finance and Management at London Business SchoolNanodegree React, Nanodegree React at UdacityBachelor of Science - BS Biopsychology, Bachelor of Science - BS Biopsychology at University of New BrunswickMDHS
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Github Skills (108)
proxy10
accelerator10
golang10
high-performance10
wrapper10
azure9
hugo9
libgit29
terraform9
rocksdb9
cloud-native9
embedded9
terraform-provider9
resource-manager9
datadog9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/gorocksdb
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
gorocksdb is a Go wrapper for RocksDB
Contributions:14 reviews, 20 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 3 months
golangrocksdbgorocksdb
udacity/kinesis_tf
Aug 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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