James Malone
Director Of Product Management at Databricks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Malone is a data and product leader with 13+ years building cloud-native data platforms and developer-facing products, now directing product for Apache Spark at Databricks. He previously led major data engineering and storage initiatives at Snowflake—owning ingestion, streaming, transformation, telemetry, and storage including Iceberg and Polaris—and launched Cloud Dataproc, Composer, and Dataprep at Google. James blends hands-on engineering (DevOps contributions to GoogleCloudDataproc initialization actions) with strategic product vision, translating complex distributed systems into usable roadmaps and teams. An MBA-trained technologist who started in technical operations and program management, he’s known for pairing rigorous blueprints with a designer’s sense of form and function to scale platforms used by large enterprises.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Political Science, Bachelor of Arts Political Science at University of WashingtonMaster of Business Administration (MBA) Technology Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Technology Management at UW Foster School of Business
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
bash10
apache-kafka10
apache-zookeeper10
cloud-computing10
devops10
gcp10
tez9
apache-flink9
flink-sql9
apache-zeppelin9
stackdriver8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudDataproc/initialization-actions
Nov 2015 - Mar 2017
Run in all nodes of your cluster before the cluster starts - lets you customize your cluster
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:39 commits, 28 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributes to the repository by creating and modifying initialization actions, which are scripts designed to customize Google Cloud Dataproc clusters. They implemented and integrated several tools and frameworks, including Apache Kafka, ZooKeeper, Apache Zeppelin, Tez, Flink, Stackdriver, and HCatalog. The user demonstrates an understanding of cloud infrastructure and automation by creating and modifying configuration files.
nodesgoogle-cloud-dataprockubernetescustomizeterraform
james-malone/RandomPython
Jan 2015 - Jun 2026
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 11 years 6 months
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