James Myers
Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Myers is a systems-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building and stabilizing distributed infrastructure and cloud-native tooling from San Francisco. He has deep hands-on expertise in backend and DevOps work for large open-source Cloud Foundry projects—contributing to BOSH, Diego, gorouter and the cloud controller—and has driven CI/CD, release automation, and deployment reliability at scale. At Pivotal he helped take container orchestration projects to production-grade stability and later advanced platform and infrastructure efforts as a senior and staff engineer at Brex before joining Figma. Comfortable across Go, Ruby, and infrastructure-as-code, he’s known for pragmatic refactors, dependency and build pipeline improvements, and hardening runtime behavior. He prefers tackling complex systems problems—like kernel/stemcell management and secure process execution—and often contributes fixes that improve operational robustness rather than just features. His background combining core systems work, developer tooling, and production deployments gives him a reputation for turning intricate distributed challenges into reliable, automatable workflows.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (42)
bosh10
dependency-management10
cloud-foundry10
back-end-development10
testing10
configuration-management10
bash10
web-deploy10
etcd10
networking10
cicd10
deployer10
ruby10
cl10
automation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh
Mar 2014 - Feb 2020
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 286 commits, 28 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:James made multiple contributions to the Cloud Foundry BOSH project, focusing on backend development. Their work included fixing system kernel stages by specifying the correct Linux kernel images and modifying the deployment plan for hotswap instance configurations. The user also removed obsolete functionality by deleting components during the cleanup process. Furthermore, the user worked on streamlining the process of detaching VM's, and managing the IP addresses.
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cloudfoundry/bosh-deployment
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Collection of BOSH manifests referenced by cloudfoundry/docs-bosh
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:99 commits, 27 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure management of the BOSH deployment project. Their work included modifications to scripts for updating releases, stemcells, and CPIs, as well as adjustments to the build process. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to the BBL (BOSH Bootloader) environment setup and cleanup steps within the CI pipeline. The user's contributions streamlined automated testing and deployment procedures.
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