James Ebentier
Senior Software Architect at Invoca
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolJames Ebentier is a pragmatic Software Architect with 11 years of experience building and hardening distributed, data-driven systems from the infrastructure up. Based in Berlin, he has led platform, release engineering, and backend teams at Invoca, driving test automation, shift-left initiatives, and platform-wide library upgrades to improve developer throughput. His hands-on background spans Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL and C/C++, and includes building high-throughput logging and event pipelines (Kafka, Elasticsearch, Filebeat/Logstash) and working with S3/Hadoop storage. James combines deep systems-level debugging across Mac, Windows and Linux with product-focused delivery—having moved teams from bi-weekly to multiple daily deployments. He mentors engineers, authors shared platform libraries and helped convert telecom-data flows to event-driven architectures, demonstrating both operational rigor and long-term architectural vision. A UCSB CS graduate, he’s perpetually chasing “the next big thing” and enjoys applying pragmatic engineering to thorny production problems.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
English, Japanese, French
Stackoverflow
151reputation
3kreached
13answers
3questions
Github Skills (145)
testing10
swagger10
security10
gemfile10
rest-api10
openapi10
rest10
swagger-codegen10
open-source10
facebook10
parsing10
jenkins10
jenkins-pipeline10
data-center9
javascript9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jebentier/jamesebentier.com
Mar 2020 - Jun 2024
James Ebentier's personal landing site
Contributions:2 reviews, 35 PRs, 56 pushes in 4 years 4 months
gatsbyreactnextjsjames
Invoca/parameter_substitution
Jun 2019 - Jan 2025
Ruby gem to parse an input string with embedded substitution parameters and replace them with values from a provided mapping
Contributions:6 reviews, 7 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 8 months
ruby
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