James Kyle
Manager Software Engineer at SafeGraph
Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kyle is a Manager Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently leading engineering at SafeGraph where he focuses on high-quality geospatial truth data for ML and AI. He combines deep systems expertise—Kafka, reliability engineering, Go, Python, containerization, and SDN—with hands-on infrastructure research, including automatic optimization of distributed deployments. A perpetual learner who completed a Georgia Tech MS in Computer Science (ML specialization) while working full time, he has a long history in cloud and streaming platforms from roles at Uber and AT&T and earlier work in MRI imaging and medical-device software. Comfortable in the *nix terminal and with low-level virtualization tools (KVM, libvirt, cgroups, namespaces), he brings both academic rigor and practical production experience to hard reliability problems. Based on his background, he often bridges research and engineering, translating experimental optimization ideas into deployable infrastructure improvements.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.77, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.77 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBA, Computer Engineering; Psychology/Philosophy; Engineering, BA, Computer Engineering; Psychology/Philosophy; Engineering at Tulane UniversityNone, Computer Hardware Technician/Cisco Certification, 4.0, None, Computer Hardware Technician/Cisco Certification, 4.0 at SOWELA TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Github Skills (200)
python10
redis-streams10
ruby10
scheduling10
automation10
ssh10
mesos10
linux10
redis-client10
virtualization10
ansible10
golang10
vagrant10
garmin10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jameskyle/homebrew-rejected
Jul 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 6 months
jameskyle/jameskyle.github.io
Jan 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 pushes in 10 years 2 months
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