James Colvin
Solutions Engineer - Data Labs
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.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Lone Star College
Github Skills (58)
dse9
cassandra7
astra7
java7
datastax-astra7
rest7
data-gateway7
cql7
gateway6
cdc6
grpc5
elasticsearch5
graphql5
pulsar5
benchmarking5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
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
cassandradata-sciencedatastax-astraspark-mlmachine-learning
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
dsepulsarshortetlcdc
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