James Sofra
Senior Technical Lead at CitiPower and Powercor
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Sofra is a Senior Technical Lead based in Melbourne with 14 years of hands-on experience architecting and delivering complex, cross-functional systems across utilities, aviation, and consumer platforms. He combines polyglot engineering skills with pragmatic leadership—driving cloud and on-prem integrations, SAP connectivity, and fast-paced microservice delivery while mentoring teams to improve agility and quality. James founded and has run the Melbourne Clojure meetup since 2012, reflecting a long-term commitment to community building and practical functional-programming expertise. He has a track record of rescuing struggling projects, securing commercial outcomes (including a high-value integration bonus and new daily revenue streams), and delivering real-time streaming platforms at scale. Outside work he applies the same maker mindset to Japanese joinery and preserving family recipes, evidencing a practical, detail-oriented creativity that informs his engineering approach.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information Technology, Information Technology, First Class Honours Thesis, Master of Information Technology, Information Technology, First Class Honours Thesis at Monash University
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Github Skills (39)
clojure8
datomic8
r-tree8
functional-programming6
spatial5
partition5
cassandra5
sink4
indexer4
battery4
pdf3
kafka-streams3
java2
apache-camel2
kafka2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jsofra/shapes
Dec 2011 - Dec 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 11 months
jsofra/mazes
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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