James Conant
Senior Engineering Manager at Toast
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJames Conant is a user- and people-first senior engineering manager with a decade of experience building reliable, scalable SaaS platforms and cloud infrastructure. He has led engineering organizations through major migrations (self-hosted K8s to AWS EKS), rebuilt critical platform components like a collaborative text editor, and instituted DevSecOps and DORA-driven practices that improved reliability and delivery. At Contently he rebuilt the department after attrition, formed new teams, promoted managers, and delivered measurable reductions in outages and lost-content incidents. Pragmatic and data-driven, he pairs deep technical breadth—from front-end to DevSecOps—with an emphasis on growth, coaching, and operational metrics that normalize velocity and engagement. Now based in New York and currently leading engineering at Toast, he focuses on impact-oriented opportunity discovery across product and organization levels. An optimist who prefers concrete outcomes, he often surfaces overlooked process and instrumentation gaps that unlock sustainable delivery.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Political Science and Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts Political Science and Philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington
English
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Github Skills (49)
json-api10
api10
json9
pair-programming9
devcontainer9
rails-app9
ruby-build8
rails8
ide8
ruby8
remote-development8
reload7
minitest6
wayland6
paperclip6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aogail/sonarr-cookbook
May 2017 - May 2020
Chef cookbook for Sonarr
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years
managed-by-terraformcookbookchefsonarr
contently/todo
Feb 2019 - Jan 2021
Simple rails app for pair programming interviews.
Contributions:11 reviews, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 11 months
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailsrubypair
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