James Falcon
Senior Systems Engineer at CoreWeave
Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolJames Falcon is a Senior Systems Engineer with 16 years of experience building and hardening backend systems, automation, and networking code, currently working on cloud-init, early boot, and image build automation at CoreWeave. He spent five years as a core maintainer of Canonical's cloud-init, owning Python development, integration testing, cloud APIs, and multi-cloud interoperability across AWS, GCE, and Azure. Earlier work at DataStax honed his expertise in distributed drivers and async event loops for Apache Cassandra, including contributions to the widely used datastax/python-driver and distributed test tooling. James blends deep test-design and QA automation skills with practical DevOps and mobile playback experience, having implemented integration test frameworks and variable-speed audio playback on Android. Based in Kenosha, WI, he’s the kind of engineer who pairs meticulous low-level debugging (hundreds of Wireshark captures in avionics work) with shipping production-grade features across cloud and distributed systems.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Computer Science Geography, Computer Science Computer Science Geography at University of Wisconsin-Parkside
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
cassandra10
audio-playback10
python10
java10
javas10
android10
devops10
cassandra-database10
integration-testing10
meta9
prepared-statements9
authentication9
user-interface9
intergration9
user-authentication9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/cloud-init
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 releases, 2633 reviews, 64 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the cloud-init project by introducing new feature flag functionality and by fixing issues related to the silent failure of includes. They also implemented the integration testing infrastructure. Furthermore, the user was responsible for adding Azure support to the integration test framework. They also implemented changes that add the ability to collect logs from integration test runs.
gcppythonagnosticinfrastructure-managementupstream
datastax/python-driver
Jul 2019 - Mar 2020
DataStax Python Driver for Apache Cassandra
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:129 commits, 63 PRs, 147 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the Python driver for Apache Cassandra. Their contributions involved fixing bugs, particularly related to exception handling and authentication. They also added integration tests to verify the correct configuration of authentication mechanisms and to validate the behavior of prepared statements. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to the handling of metadata and compact counter tables.
python-driverpythoncassandraapachedatastax
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