James Brown
Data Engineer
Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Brown is a Data Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building data pipelines, cataloging, and creating visualizations, currently applying his skills at Xentity Corporation in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. Self-taught across a broad language set—from Python and JavaScript to legacy Fortran—he combines practical engineering with a mathematical foundation from Colorado School of Mines. He has contributed to the open-source CKAN harvest extension, improving Solr integration and indexing logic to make harvested datasets more discoverable. Comfortable in both back-end integration and data modeling, he has a track record of refactoring for compatibility and reliability in production systems. Curious by nature and energized by new technologies, James focuses on turning messy data into usable, searchable assets that teams can trust.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Applied Mathematics, Senior, Bachelor's Degree, Applied Mathematics, Senior at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (16)
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python10
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json9
api8
testing8
apidoc8
aws-elasticsearch7
plugin7
amazon-elasticsearch7
elasticsearch-api7
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckanext-harvest
Sep 2021 - Oct 2021
Remote harvesting extension for CKAN
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `ckanext-harvest` extension, focusing on enhancing its integration with Solr for improved searchability. They added functionalities to index harvest information within Solr, modified the plugin's `before_index` and `after_show` methods, and addressed issues related to package extras. Additionally, they refactored the code to be compatible with Python 2, and tested integration with the harvest functionality. Further work included fixing the solr index, and the modification of the indexing process.
harvestingckan
GSA/datagov-dedupe
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 50 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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