James Colvin
Analytics Engineering Lead at Raya
Pensacola, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Colvin is a Solutions Engineer with eight years of experience helping enterprises design and deploy large-scale data platforms, now focused on IBM Data Labs and Watsonx.data after several years at DataStax. He blends hands-on systems work—from control systems and AV programming to modern distributed databases—with client-centered problem solving, aiming to make advanced data tooling feel as natural as everyday office tech. Based in Pensacola, he brings a practical engineering background and project leadership experience that help translate business workflows into scalable technical solutions. James is driven to learn beyond his own domain so he can better understand customers’ daily operations and integrate emerging AI and data technologies seamlessly into their environments.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Marketing and Management, BS, Marketing and Management at Berry College - Campbell School of BusinessMasters, Market Research, Masters, Market Research at University of Georgia - Terry College of Business
Github Skills (45)
cassandra7
astradb7
datastax-astra7
data-gateway7
cql7
rest6
java6
cdc6
grpc5
graphql5
elasticsearch5
netlify4
testing4
gitpod4
benchmarking4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jamesc127/datastax-enterprise-cdc-demo
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
Short demonstration of standing up a DSE environment that publishes changes to CDC via Pulsar and persists in Elasticsearch
Contributions:54 commits, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 9 months
cdcelasticsearch
jamesc127/machine-learning-workshop-astra-online
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Machine Learning with Apache Spark & Cassandra on DataStax Astra!
Contributions:20 commits, 12 pushes in 11 months
apache-sparkcassandradatastax-astramachine-learning
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