James Rucker
Staff Software Engineer at Strange Loop
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJames Rucker is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of professional experience building full-stack, production-grade systems. He has driven API and index-management features at Elastic’s widely used Kibana project, implementing secure API key creation and improving index listing behavior for cloud fallbacks. His career spans startups and enterprise teams—contributing across backend, security integration, and developer-facing tooling at companies like Elastic, LegitScript, Engine Yard, and Strange Loop. James combines hands-on coding with a pragmatic focus on reliability and operability, often tackling edge cases that improve developer experience. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Portland State University and brings both long-term product continuity and open-source collaboration to the teams he joins.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Portland State University
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
apidoc10
amazon-elasticsearch10
metasearch10
searching10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
web-search10
aws-elasticsearch10
text-search10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
back-end-development9
security9
react9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 14 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to the Enterprise Search project, focusing on features related to API keys and index management. They implemented an API endpoint for creating API keys, including the necessary security integrations. Furthermore, they enhanced the index listing functionality, adding options for conditional alias inclusion and cloud-based host fallback. The user also worked on updating the example API ingest to be runnable.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
jgr/kibana
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 8 months
elasticwindowelastic-stackelasticsearch
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