James Cha-earley
Senior Developer Advocate
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJames Cha-earley is a Senior Developer Advocate with 11 years of experience building developer platforms and communities, currently at Snowflake in Sunnyvale. He has led developer relations and platform programs at Hume AI, Bill.com and Clover, scaling teams and processes that turn developer needs into measurable adoption. Equally comfortable with hands-on engineering and people leadership, he has driven hiring processes, CI/CD foundations, testing strategies, and partner integrations across fintech and payments platforms. A former software developer, Scrum Master and adjunct professor with an MS in Computer Science, he blends technical depth with mentorship and developer education. James is pragmatic about community building—prioritizing the tools and support that actually help developers ship—and has a track record of launching programs that enable both internal product teams and external partners. Outside of product work, his background running large meetups and teaching web development reveals a knack for translating complex technical topics into practical, usable guidance.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Education B.A Medieval Studies, Education B.A Medieval Studies at UC Santa BarbaraMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at California State University, Fresno
Korean
Github Skills (24)
cursor10
snowflake10
github-copilot9
data-extraction8
ai8
notebook7
prompting6
copilot6
mobile6
sql6
android-sdk6
machine-learning6
python6
data-science5
data-engineering4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jamescha-earley/sfquickstarts
Nov 2024 - Jun 2026
Follow along with our tutorials to get you up and running with Snowflake.
Contributions:21 PRs, 215 pushes, 64 branches in 1 year 7 months
Snowflake-Labs/sfguide-getting-started-with-cortex-agents
Feb 2025 - Feb 2026
Contributions:1 review, 17 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.