James Nowell
Principal Software Engineer at Braven
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJames Nowell is a Principal Software Engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building resilient distributed systems and streaming computation platforms. He combines hands-on engineering (Akka, Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, Hadoop) with product and platform leadership—recently co-founding ezbot AI to deliver production ML, analytics stores, and a Kubernetes-backed ingestion pipeline. At Peloton and InformaticsIQ he led migrations, low-latency data lakes, and event-driven architectures while coaching teams on DDD, CDC, and high-value event design. He excels at turning complex data flows into reliable, observable services and has a knack for pragmatic operational design and developer enablement. Based in Chicago, he also runs SWE Support and prototypes playful command-line tools (including gif utilities) that reflect a practical curiosity outside core systems work. Colleagues describe him as a technical steward who balances strategic vision, startup grit, and deep distributed-systems craft.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of Florida
English
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Github Skills (59)
data-science9
scheduler9
jwt-authentication9
python9
machine-learning9
automation9
etl9
google9
orchestration9
react-router9
azure8
auth8
data-integration8
gitpython8
data-pipelines8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jamescnowell/emacs
Nov 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:16 pushes in 7 years 7 months
emacsconfiguration-filesemacs-configurationemacs-lisp
jamescnowell/gifer
Aug 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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