James Brown
Senior Kafka Engineer at Hard Rock Digital
Austin, Texas, United States
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SeniorJames Brown is a Senior Kafka Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale data and streaming infrastructures across finance, travel, retail, and entertainment. He has designed and automated multi-AZ Kafka deployments in AWS, managed hundreds of Kafka nodes and multi-cluster environments, and led platform work at Expedia, H-E-B, and currently Hard Rock Digital. His background spans SRE and systems engineering—automation with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Rundeck; datalake and analytics tooling such as Druid, Databricks, Presto, and RStudio; and migrations to cloud-native architectures. A former U.S. Air Force inflight refueling technician, he brings mission-focused discipline and operational rigor to on-call and production reliability. Based in Austin, TX, he pairs deep operational experience with pragmatic automation to reduce toil and scale streaming platforms predictably.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eirka/eirka-get
Feb 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 462 commits, 497 pushes in 7 years 1 month
eirka/eirka-provision
May 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 8 years 11 months
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