James Simmons
Cloud Engineer at Ally
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJames Simmons is a Cloud Engineer based in Charlotte, NC with five years of experience building data-driven, cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling. He designs and operates ETL pipelines, analytics dashboards, and CI/CD systems using AWS services (Lambda, S3, Glue, Athena, QuickSight), Terraform, DBT, and GitLab/GitHub Actions to deliver observability and analytics at scale. At Ally he introduced a novel terraform+Python approach to manage QuickSight across environments and led multiple teams to adopt repeatable ETL and deployment patterns. His contributions to the OpenBB finance open-source project show hands-on backend expertise in Python for data scraping, financial analytics, and stabilizing crypto and sentiment pipelines. Early research work on security and usability gives him a strong foundation in security-conscious engineering and experimental analysis. He combines pragmatic automation with a knack for refactoring brittle ETLs into reliable, production-ready workflows.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (8)
pandas10
debug10
python10
data-scraping10
api9
finance9
apim9
quantitative-finance8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OpenBB-finance/OpenBB
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Investment Research for Everyone, Everywhere.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 23 reviews, 128 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the OpenBB finance repository. Their work included addressing issues related to data scraping, particularly for management data from Business Insider. They also made changes to address future warnings, fix bugs resulting in NaN values, and refactor code to improve functionality related to dark pool shorts and sentiment analysis. Furthermore, the user addressed multiple bugs and integrated fixes for the crypto section.
stock-marketpythonalgorithmic-tradingmachine-learningtrading
simmonsj330/OpenBBTerminal
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Investment Research for Everyone, Anywhere.
Contributions:352 pushes, 120 branches in 6 months
stock-marketpythonalgorithmic-tradingtradinganywhere
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.