James Mcshane
Solutions Engineering at solo.io
Cincinnati Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mcshane is a Cloud Native Architect with 11 years of experience designing and delivering Kubernetes-first platform and CI/CD solutions across enterprise and consulting environments. He has progressed from hands-on full-stack and platform engineering roles to leading engineering practices and now architects customer solutions at Portworx by Pure Storage. James is an active contributor to notable open-source projects—improving Tekton Triggers' event handling and adding resilience and metrics to the Jenkins Prometheus plugin—demonstrating deep backend and SRE expertise. His background in mathematics (MS) and teaching informs a methodical approach to system design, testing, and documentation. Known for bridging customer needs with robust engineering, he specializes in operationalizing cloud-native workloads and observability for production-scale systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics at Xavier UniversityMaster's Degree Mathematics, Master's Degree Mathematics at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (20)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
testing10
plugin-development10
tekton10
event-driven-architecture10
java10
javas10
go10
prometheus10
trigger10
pipeline10
kubernetes-pods10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
tektoncd/triggers
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Event triggering with Tekton!
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 18 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the Tekton triggers project. They implemented tests for CEL expressions, demonstrating the use of functions within interceptors. Significant contributions included improving the event listener sink, ensuring it correctly resolves the EventListener configuration before processing events and updating the logic for trigger selection and processing. Furthermore, the user made updates to the build and deployment scripts, and added metrics for the eventlistener sink.
tektonpipelinestriggers
jenkinsci/prometheus-plugin
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Jenkins Prometheus Plugin
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & SRE
Back-end Developer & SREContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on extending the Jenkins Prometheus Plugin by introducing uptime monitoring and adding a gauge for the last build's start time. Their contributions involved implementing new metrics related to Jenkins' operational state and build process, which required modifications to the core Java code. Furthermore, the user added null checks to improve the robustness of the metrics collection process and included a basic unit test.
jenkinsprometheusprometheus-metricspluginmonitoring
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