James Hughes
California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Hughes is a seasoned Site Reliability and Web Operations engineer with 17 years of experience building resilient, secure, and performant services for high-traffic products. He blends hands-on Unix and backend engineering with a knack for human-centered process improvements—stepping in to resolve not just production fires but team friction between QA and development. His resume includes SRE leadership at WePay, Winnie, and Loop, plus early work on reddit where he contributed notable user-facing features and backend improvements to a platform with hundreds of millions of monthly users. James is comfortable deep in failure analysis, incident response, and performance tuning, and he brings practical security experience from leading responsible disclosure and HTTPS transitions at iFixit. An active open-source contributor, he has helped adapt libraries like github3.py to evolving APIs and improved reddit’s sharing/metadata handling. Based in California, he’s the kind of support-player who quietly makes systems and teams run smoother so product teams can shine.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
python10
charts10
github-api10
reddit10
rest-api10
twitter-card10
testing9
matplotlib9
unix9
filesystem9
google-bigquery9
pytest9
github9
linux9
ansible9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Sep 2014 - Dec 2015
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:157 commits, 7 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:James's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Reddit codebase by implementing new features and improving existing ones. They added support for Twitter Cards, including modifications to the Python code and Reddit's templates to enable the display of Twitter Card metadata. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the OpenGraph and Twitter summary features, addressing issues such as the display of NSFW content and ensuring proper formatting of subreddit names. Additional contributions include adding Q&A sort functionality for comments.
pythonprawjavascripthistoricalarchiver
sigmavirus24/github3.py
May 2013 - Feb 2014
Hi, I'm a library for interacting with GItHub's REST API in a convenient and ergonomic way. I work on Python 3.6+.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 issue in 9 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the github3.py library by addressing API changes and documentation inaccuracies related to GitHub's REST API. They corrected the `master_branch` attribute name and updated related tests, demonstrating a focus on adapting the library to evolving API specifications. Furthermore, the user added themselves to the AUTHORS file and fixed minor documentation bugs related to function parameters, showing a focus on maintainability and improving the developer experience. Their contributions centered around refining the library's core functionality and ensuring its alignment with the GitHub API.
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