James Land
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJames Land is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade at Red Hat, specializing in architecting AI-driven and Kubernetes-native solutions on OpenShift. He blends deep hands-on skills in containerization, microservices and CI/CD (ArgoCD, Tekton, Terraform, GitHub Actions) with a pragmatic “Contract-First” approach that speeds Greenfield integrations and reduces runtime friction. As Tech Lead for the open-source Composer AI project, he has translated AI research into production-ready full-stack components while mentoring teams and shaping enterprise cloud journeys. James is known for bridging dev and ops through clear communication and centralized, extensible pipelines that scale across customers. Based in Richmond, VA, he pairs enterprise consulting experience with practical tooling-focused teaching—publishing labs and videos to share best practices beyond his Red Hat work.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (81)
pipeline9
authentication9
jwt8
jwt-authentication8
tekton8
resource-management8
openshift8
authorization8
sap-cap7
transformation7
cdf7
auth7
cloud-foundry7
continuous-delivery7
cluster-manager7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Jaland/godot-lobby-frontend
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:33 commits in 5 months
redhat-composer-ai/quarkus-llm-router
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Backend service for routing request from Frontend UI to RAG datasources and LLMs
Contributions:20 releases, 14 reviews, 16 PRs in 4 months
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