James Meickle
Roboticist at RAI Institute
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Meickle is a seasoned roboticist and infrastructure engineer with 15 years of experience building secure, scalable cloud and ML systems from research clusters to production services. He has led infrastructure and security efforts as a founding engineer—driving a successful SOC 2 audit and multi-account AWS/Terraform architectures—and productionized ML workloads at enterprise scale while coaching teams in IaC, CI/CD, and Kubernetes. At the RAI Institute he blends robotics research computing with cluster, GPU, and incident/cybersecurity operations; prior roles include principal SRE work at Quantopian and Fidelity where he moved teams from weekly to daily deploys. An active open-source contributor, he’s also implemented game mechanics in the popular Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup project, showing a taste for creative, systems-level problem solving. Based in Boston, he combines practical ops rigor with research-minded curiosity and a track record of turning complex requirements into auditable, repeatable infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Psychology & Political Science, B.A., Psychology & Political Science at Central Connecticut State University
English, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
html10
characters10
content-management-system10
maintenance10
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
char10
content-management10
algorithms8
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jedi4ever/devopsdays-webby
Apr 2014 - Aug 2015
Website code for the devopsdays website
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:James's commits primarily focus on updating and modifying the website code for the devopsdays website, specifically for the 2014 and 2015 Boston events. They made changes to the program schedule, sponsor information, registration details, and front-end elements. This involved HTML and potentially associated styling. The contributions show an active role in maintaining the website's content and user interface, ensuring it reflects the event's details and updates.
devopsdays
crawl/crawl
Mar 2011 - Jan 2013
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:103 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:James's primary contribution involved implementing a new playable species, "Lava Orcs," within the Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup game. This included defining their characteristics such as restricted classes, aptitudes, monster versions, and integrating them into the existing game mechanics, including temperature-based effects. The user also modified game systems to prevent using scrolls and books and restricted casting of certain spells when the player is too hot. Furthermore, the developer added a heat halo that causes fire damage to nearby enemies.
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