James Ricks
Senior Software Engineer at Harness
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Ricks is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of focused industry experience and a long history of back-end engineering dating back to earlier roles at Lockheed Martin. Based in Orlando, he has strong Java and integration expertise demonstrated by contributions to widely used open-source projects in the Pentaho ecosystem—improving scheduling, security (encrypted datasource passwords), Java 11 compatibility, and big-data connectors for Kafka, MQTT, and IBM MQ. He blends feature development with test automation and QA, routinely adding unit tests and hardening integrations for OLAP and ETL systems. Educated with a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon SV, he brings both academic rigor and practical production experience. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who improves reliability and interoperability in complex data platforms while paying attention to security and backward/forward compatibility.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-IdahoMaster of Science (MS), Computer Software Engineering, 3.7, Master of Science (MS), Computer Software Engineering, 3.7 at Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley
English, Dutch
Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
ibm-mq10
jms10
snowflake10
testing10
databases10
java10
olap10
javas10
junit10
mondrian10
sql10
database10
back-end-development9
mqttnet9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pentaho/big-data-plugin
Feb 2018 - Apr 2022
Kettle plugin that provides support for interacting within many "big data" projects including Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, and others.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 122 commits, 103 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the development and testing of MQTT producer functionality within the project. They added unit tests for the MQTT producer, demonstrating a focus on ensuring code quality and reliability through testing. Additionally, the user made changes to various Kafka-related components, which indicates a working knowledge of the project's core functionalities related to data streaming and big data plugins. They also worked on cleaning up code and fixing unit tests.
operationhadoop-hivefeature-storehive-hbasemongodb
pentaho/pentaho-kettle
Mar 2018 - May 2022
Pentaho Data Integration ( ETL ) a.k.a Kettle
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 96 commits, 90 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James implemented a JMS Producer for IBM MQ, encompassing both UI and functional aspects. Their work involved modifications to Java code, specifically within the UI for the `JmsProducerDialog` and related components. The commits indicate a focus on configuring and managing JMS connections, properties, and message handling within the Pentaho Data Integration platform. Furthermore, the user added debug logging for the JmsProducer properties and set the Jms property name to use variables.
pentaho-data-integrationetldata-integrationkettlepentaho
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