James Sheridan
Staff Software Engineer at Berkeley High School
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Sheridan is a staff software engineer in Oakland with 10+ years building backend, algorithmic systems for EV fleet integration and energy management, currently architecting ChargePoint’s fleet and energy products and CI/CD in AWS. He led the Kisensum team through acquisition and has contributed to the VOLTTRON open-source control platform by hardening a ChargePoint driver and improving thread safety and SEP2 support. Comfortable spanning research-to-production work with government and lab partners, he designs tariff- and demand-response-aware charging optimizers that balance schedules, costs, and grid signals. Beyond engineering, he’s a long-tenured coach who grew Berkeley High Ultimate from 20 to 120 players and guided multiple state championships and a national title, demonstrating durable leadership, mentorship, and program-building skills.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Charleston Catholic High SchoolB.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Carleton College
Github Skills (3)
python10
soap9
bacnet4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
VOLTTRON/volttron
Dec 2016 - Sep 2017
VOLTTRON Distributed Control System Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the Chargepoint driver within the VOLTTRON platform. Their contributions include enhancing the driver's functionality, improving error handling and logging, and implementing a tool for creating CSV configuration files. They also made various code improvements, including making SOAP requests thread-safe and modifying the driver to support a broader set of SEP2 fields. Furthermore, the user also made improvements to the README.
pythonmessage-busoffice-hoursdaemonosgi
sheridaj/sandbox
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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