James Broadhead
Member Of Technical Staff at Databricks
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Broadhead is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms and developer-facing products, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Databricks after leading Neon through GA and acquisition. He blends strategic thinking with a strong emphasis on engineering culture, autonomy and measurable long-term progress—growing teams from 55 to 100+ while balancing speed, quality and reliability. Previously he led Kubernetes, Cloud Developer Productivity and API experience teams at MongoDB and drove high-impact frontend/backend work at Twitter, demonstrating breadth across distributed systems, SRE and developer tooling. An advocate for experimentation and AI-enabled workflows, he also contributes to open-source testing infrastructure (notably improving test coverage for the widely used calibre ebook manager). Trained in electronic and computer engineering at Trinity College Dublin, he brings a pragmatic research background and hands-on QA/automation expertise to strategic technical delivery.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BAI) & Master of Arts (MA) Electronic and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BAI) & Master of Arts (MA) Electronic and Computer Engineering at Trinity College DublinSt. Andrews College, Dublin
Irish, French
Stackoverflow
1,928reputation
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11answers
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
python10
unit-test10
test-automation10
calibre9
workmanager8
user-manager8
ebooklib8
pytest7
user-agent6
embedding6
command-line6
http-header6
http6
bash6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
kovidgoyal/calibre
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:James focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure for the calibre ebook manager. They implemented new tests for the library module, ensuring its functionality. The contributions included adding test methods, fixing existing tests to improve accuracy, and integrating new test cases. The user also refactored and improved existing test code, demonstrating a focus on test coverage and reliability.
ebookebook-formatsebookspythonkindle
jbanother/shoppingcart
May 2017 - Jan 2022
interview exercise
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 6 pushes in 4 years 8 months
interview-exercise
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