James Royal
Engineering Manager at Cloudflare
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Royal is an Engineering Manager based in Austin with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-scale systems, currently leading teams at Cloudflare after progressing from systems engineering roles. He brings hands-on software engineering roots from IBM and open-source contributions—particularly full-stack work on the popular Tautulli Plex monitoring project where he shipped UI and backend features like configurable stats windows and profile picture handling. Comfortable bridging product and infrastructure, James combines pragmatic backend design with front-end sensibilities to improve observability and user experience. His background in refining operations and enterprise systems gives him a practical, metrics-driven approach to team delivery and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (10)
html10
javascript10
web-development10
python10
plex9
user-interface8
monitoring8
analytics8
graphical-user-interface8
ui-design8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Tautulli/Tautulli
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
A Python based monitoring and tracking tool for Plex Media Server.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 9 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end aspects of the Tautulli project. They implemented features such as a 7-day button on the graph page and added options for home statistics length, demonstrating changes to the user interface and configuration. Furthermore, the user introduced functionality to set and retrieve profile picture URLs for users, which involved changes to the data model and web interface logic. These contributions suggest a blend of UI/UX and backend development expertise.
tautulliplexpyanalyticspythonstatistics
jroyal/drafthouse-seat-finder
Feb 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 46 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 3 months
moviedayseatsalamo
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