James Conerly is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building production systems, currently contributing to core projects at Apple from Cupertino. His career spans technical leadership and hands-on engineering across startups and scale-ups—Burstly, Media Temple, and Oversee.net—bringing expertise in driving reliability and shipping at scale. A UC Santa Cruz computer science graduate, he has progressed from QA and test engineering into senior engineering and tech lead roles, giving him a pragmatic eye for quality and maintainability. Known for steady long-tenures and cross-functional impact, he combines deep implementation experience with an ability to mentor teams through complex platform work.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz
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