James Talton
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Talton is a seasoned software engineer with 25+ years of experience and 11 years focused on modern full‑stack TypeScript systems, currently building MCP servers, agentic workflows, and LLM-powered interfaces. He’s a top 1% GitHub TypeScript developer known for unifying fragmented UIs and APIs into cohesive platforms—most recently consolidating three Ansible product UIs at Red Hat into a single production AAP 2.5 release. Comfortable across frontend, backend, AI, and cloud infrastructure, he architects low-memory, high‑performance services and streaming AI loops using React, Node/Bun, MCP, Vercel AI SDK, and Kubernetes. He’s driven large migrations (Cloud Foundry→Kubernetes, Webpack→Vite) and introduced TypeScript and Playwright testing at scale to improve maintainability and reliability. Not obvious from titles: he routinely engineers tiny, efficient backend proxies (40–80MB footprints) and has a strong track record rescuing unstable production services to high availability. Based in Raleigh, NC, he blends hands‑on coding with cross‑team architecture and platform-level thinking.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of South Alabama
Github Skills (135)
tooling10
python10
hat10
automation10
rest-api10
patternfly10
wizard10
django10
ansible-automation-platform10
api10
rest10
ansible10
management10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
stolostron/react-data-view
May 2022 - Jan 2024
A react component for viewing items as a table or catalog card view.
Contributions:5 reviews, 14 PRs, 390 pushes in 1 year 8 months
react-componentreactcard-viewreactjscatalog
jamestalton/node-server-utils
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
Utilities for running a clustered node server
Contributions:19 releases, 2 PRs, 199 pushes in 1 year 7 months
node-servernodejsserver
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