James O'carroll
Senior Software Engineering Consultant at StackHead Inc
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames O'carroll is a Senior Software Engineering Consultant based in Chicago with 10 years of hands-on experience designing embedded and cloud-native systems across C/C++, Java, Kotlin, and C#. He has led embedded Linux and real-time projects for devices and telematics, then transitioned to stabilizing and evolving backend platforms and distributed systems using Kafka, Postgres, GraphQL, Argo, and Temporal. At StackHead he built secure AuthN/AuthZ patterns, Terraform-based federated identity infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines while collaborating closely with DevOps and security teams to integrate Okta, Cognito, and AWS services. James combines low-level firmware intuition with practical cloud engineering, evidenced by work spanning OpenEmbedded/Yocto builds, ARM Docker automation, and RESTful API design for resilient services. He’s effective at driving legacy modernization and performance troubleshooting in production, often surfacing non-obvious fixes that reduce runtime issues and operational overhead.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
Github Skills (15)
procfile9
cpp8
python-requests8
dbus8
libcurl7
python7
devtools7
freedesktop7
http7
curl6
foreman6
java6
eclipse5
database-access4
iot2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stack-head/codedrunkdebugsober
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
stack-head/honcho
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Honcho: a python clone of Foreman. For managing Procfile-based applications.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
pythonprocfileforeman
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