Summary
James Lyons is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on reliability, availability, and operability as an SRE on Airbnb’s platform team. He combines production SRE practice with a strong research and prototyping background from Stanford, where he built data-driven tools, surveys that collected 129,000 datapoints, and ML classifiers for image tasks. Early internships at Jefferson Lab and NASA Langley reflect a knack for practical automation and image analysis pipelines, including Objective-C tools for superconducting cavity inspection. Based in Palo Alto, he brings a disciplined engineering approach to large-scale reliability problems while retaining hands-on experience in frontend and embedded prototypes from academic projects. Colleagues can expect an engineer who blends rigorous data-thinking with pragmatic systems engineering and a curiosity for turning research prototypes into operational solutions.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Thomas Nelson Community College
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Grafton High School
Summer Academy for Mathematics and Science, Summer Academy for Mathematics and Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Stanford University
English