James Li
Senior Software Engineer at HashiCorp
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Li is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and endpoint telemetry at scale. He has deep expertise in OpenStack (former core reviewer) and a strong track record delivering secure control planes, data pipelines, and cross-platform agents across millions of endpoints using Go and Python. His recent work spans enterprise AI security at HashiCorp and vulnerability-driven CI/CD integrations and agent lifecycle services at Automox. Comfortable across Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, gRPC/real-time websockets, and observability stacks, he blends systems-level networking knowledge (BGP, DNS, HTTP) with practical security tooling like osquery. Known for substantial open-source contributions to projects such as OpenStack, XORP, SSFNet and CoralCDN, he pairs deep infrastructure chops with a penchant for making complex distributed systems operable and secure.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (54)
docker10
ecosystem9
container9
integrate9
glance9
github-graphql9
golang9
image-management9
client-library8
openstack8
go8
openflow8
assemble8
moby8
sensu8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jamesyli/designate-specs
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
jamesyli/test-messaging
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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