James Ralston
Analytics Team Lead at Intel Corporation
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJames Ralston is an Analytics Team Lead at Intel with 13 years of experience blending software validation, DevOps, and analytics across hardware and platform engineering. A US Navy veteran and trained Nuclear Electrician's Mate, he brings disciplined systems thinking and operational rigor from nuclear power to large-scale chipset validation and WHQL certification. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering from UC Davis and progressed from Linux kernel contribution and platform chipset software to leading analytics and SCM engineering efforts. James specializes in test automation, software configuration management, and hardware/software validation, with proven ability to migrate and modernize infrastructure using virtualization and automation. Based in Portland, he pairs deep low-level technical expertise with data-driven leadership to optimize validation pipelines and release quality. An unusual thread through his career is translating high-stakes military maintenance practices into repeatable, auditable engineering processes in silicon and software delivery.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering with Minor in Technology Management, Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering with Minor in Technology Management at University of California, DavisEngineering, Engineering at Sacramento City College
Github Skills (49)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cloudbees-ci-workshop-01252022/cloudbees-ci-config-bundle
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
jamesdralston/skills-hello-github-actions
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
My clone repository
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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