James Linder
Member Of The Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Linder is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with 17+ years building teams and production systems, currently a Member of the Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs and founder of Keet. He focuses on high-impact work for social good—climate, healthcare, and education—favoring outcomes, simplicity, fast iterations, and team empowerment over heroics. His background spans hands-on backend and DevOps contributions to large cloud-native projects (including work on the well-known CockroachDB codebase) and senior engineering leadership roles across startups and scale-ups. Comfortable both writing code and growing people, he emphasizes practical delivery: working over perfect and short release cycles. An uncommon thread in his career is blending founder mindset with sustained open-source collaboration to improve developer workflows and operational traceability.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (20)
cockroachdb10
go10
devops10
git9
bash9
distributed-database9
docker8
automations8
database8
automation8
databases8
dockers8
cicd7
php6
database-design6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/cockroach
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:754 reviews, 124 commits, 353 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `label-merged-pr` command, enhancing its functionality for labeling pull requests based on merge commits. They improved the command's logic for finding and evaluating merge commits, ensuring it considers both manual and Bors merges. Additionally, the user introduced changes to the `gceworker` script, including adding a `created-by` label to new VMs, improving the team's ability to track which engineer created the VMs. The user also updated the docker image build process.
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
jlinder/dotfiles
Jun 2012 - Dec 2022
Contributions:110 commits, 43 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years 7 months
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