James Pond
Technical Operations Engineer
Paraná, Brazil
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Top SchoolJames Pond is a Linux-focused Technical Operations Engineer with nine years of experience blending system administration, customer success, and support leadership across startups and observability (currently at Datadog). He has a strong track record helping users adopt open source software, from community leadership in Ubuntu to hands-on technical escalation and documentation as a team lead at Copyblogger and senior support at Cloudcraft. Comfortable both troubleshooting servers and shaping support processes, James bridges technical depth with customer empathy to turn complex incidents into durable solutions. Based in Paraná, Brazil, he pairs formal computer science training with a penchant for mentoring and community-driven projects, often tackling the problems that fall outside standard support playbooks.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at UFFS - Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (169)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/documentor
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Improve technical documentation with the power of AI.
Contributions:1 review, 20 PRs, 12 pushes in 7 months
aianthropicclaudecommand-linecommand-line-tool
DataDog/cloudcraft-python
Feb 2024 - Jan 2025
Python client for the Cloudcraft developer API.
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
api-clientcloudcraftpythonpython3sdk
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