James Connell
Sr. Solutions Architect at Pulumi
Spokane, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Connell is a Senior Solutions Architect with two decades of software and cloud consulting experience, currently focused on application modernization and cloud-native architectures at Pulumi. He combines hands-on development history—from front-end work on diagramming libraries to full-stack .NET and Python systems—with deep AWS expertise in serverless, containers, data engineering, and IaC. James helps organizations decouple monoliths, modernize data platforms, and adopt DevOps/SRE practices while supporting pre-sales, enablement, and delivery for large-scale migrations. He has led migrations of Oracle to Aurora, built data transformation pipelines at scale, and contributed front-end improvements to the JointJS diagramming project. Comfortable briefing executives and mentoring engineering teams, he blends technical craft with pragmatic strategy to make cloud transformations measurable and repeatable. Based in Spokane, WA, he pairs enterprise modernization experience with a developer’s attention to detail and real-world code contributions.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
diagramming10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
svg9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
clientIO/joint
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
A proven SVG-based JavaScript diagramming library powering exceptional UIs
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:James focused on improving the JointJS diagramming library, making several enhancements related to link interactions and element behavior. They addressed issues with the timing of events within the `LinkView` and `ElementView` classes, specifically ensuring correct batching of operations during pointer events. Additionally, the user introduced and fixed styling issues, and added functionality for accessing ancestors, which improves the diagram's management of embedded cells and routing.
chartsjavascript-libraryvisual-applicationsinteractive-diagramssvg
ollionorg/spectacle
Jul 2017 - Oct 2019
Beautiful static documentation generator for OpenAPI/Swagger 2.0
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
redocdocumentation-generatorswagger-2openapi-generatoropenapi3
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