James Nelson
Senior Database Engineer
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Summary
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SeniorJames Nelson is a Senior Database Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building high-throughput Java systems, GWT-based cross-platform frameworks, and production-grade tooling for cloud and Kubernetes environments. He maintains a fork of GWT and authors XApi, an ambitious open-source framework that lets one Java codebase run across web, mobile, and server platforms by injecting platform-specific services and avoiding leaky abstractions. At Deephaven he designs performant Java-to-JavaScript APIs, CI/CD and Gradle plugin infrastructure, and operates HA Kubernetes clusters and Jenkins automation for time-series, in-memory databases. His background spans backend middleware, devops automation, and frontend GWT compiler/linker work—often optimizing components by an order of magnitude or creating source-to-source tooling. James markets himself as a pragmatic engineer who prefers solving hard infrastructure problems over recruiter ping-pong, and he pairs deep systems knowledge with a developer-first open source mindset. An anime- and web-novel-friendly polyglot, he mixes serious engineering with playful curiosity that fuels long-term projects.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
api-platform10
gradle-plugin10
gwt10
api10
groovy10
django10
kubernetes10
storage10
raft10
gradle10
web-ide10
key-value10
extensible10
closure10
uberjar10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
JamesXNelson/deephaven-core
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Deephaven Community Core
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 99 pushes in 1 year 6 months
deephaven
WeTheInternet/gwt-sandbox
Oct 2013 - May 2019
Contributions:238 commits, 1 PR, 35 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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