James Brown
Rust Backend Engineer at Svix
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Brown is a Rust backend engineer with 16 years of experience building reliable, high-concurrency systems for startups and large tech companies. He combines deep infrastructure and security expertise—spanning datacenter networking, BGP, PostgreSQL/MySQL/Cassandra operations, and SOC 2 readiness—with hands-on application development in Rust, Python, and Ruby. At companies from Yelp and Uber to EasyPost and Svix he’s driven production architecture, on-call incident response, and migrations from Heroku to Kubernetes. A pragmatic polyglot who prefers writing against Postgres but delights in modern Cassandra and Rust, he also contributes to prominent open-source projects like Serde, Puma, and uWSGI. Based in Oakland, he’s as comfortable turning a rack of SuperMicro boxes into a resilient production environment as he is adding atomic serde support or PROXY protocol parsing to widely used libraries.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College
Github Skills (25)
python10
testing10
twilio-api10
http10
data-serialization10
c1110
ruby10
c1710
serialization10
deserialization10
ipv610
rack10
rust10
serde10
server10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
unbit/uwsgi
Mar 2016 - Oct 2021
uWSGI application server container
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 14 comments in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:James focused on improving the handling of network addresses within the uWSGI application server. Their primary contributions involved correctly parsing and representing IPv6 addresses, including handling IPv6-mapped IPv4 addresses. They addressed issues with data structures and the use of string manipulation functions, along with code style improvements. Further contributions include the addition of HTTP status codes.
containersdockeruwsgiservercontainer
puma/puma
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the Puma web server, adding support for the PROXY protocol, including parsing logic and tests. They modified the client and server code to correctly handle and interpret the PROXY protocol. The changes also included adjustments to the remote address handling and documentation updates.
multithreadingweb-serverrackrubyparallelism
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