James Mulcahy
Staff Software Engineer, Networking & Data Platform
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mulcahy is a Staff Software Engineer based in Redmond with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, cluster scheduling, and high-performance networking and data platforms. He combines deep low-level systems expertise—kernel/hardware boundaries, C/C++ and embedded platforms—with cloud infrastructure leadership honed at Netflix and Apple, progressing from hands-on engineering to management roles. At Netflix he focuses on networking and platform reliability, and his open-source work includes operational improvements to Netflix’s widely used Eureka service registry, improving logging, metrics, and self-preservation visibility. Known for bridging SRE rigor with pragmatic engineering, he excels at making complex systems observable and stable under scale. His background includes storage cache leadership at IBM and work on dynamic binary translation products, reflecting a long-standing focus on performance-sensitive system software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (10)
netflix-eureka10
monitoring10
javas10
logging10
java10
metric10
spring-boot9
aws8
microservices-application7
microservices7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/eureka
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
AWS Service registry for resilient mid-tier load balancing and failover.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 8 reviews, 13 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the logging, metrics, and overall stability of the Eureka service registry. They downgraded log levels for noisy messages, fixed compiler warnings in the configuration, and added new metrics for remote fetch successes, mismatches, and self-preservation mode. Additionally, they implemented the reporting of seconds since the last successful remote fetch. These changes indicate a focus on improved monitoring and operational efficiency within the Eureka system.
service-registryresilientmidload-balancingfailover
jamesmulcahy/akka
Jan 2016 - Aug 2020
Akka Project
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
scalaakka
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