James Tatum
Sr. Staff AI Researcher at Walt Disney Imagineering
Glendale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Tatum is a System Reliability Engineering Manager with 15 years of hands-on experience building and automating CI/CD across Linux, Windows, macOS and embedded PLC systems. At Walt Disney Imagineering he leads SRE for show control software, pioneering automated testing and deployment for TwinCAT PLCs alongside Linux/Docker and Windows environments. He has a strong engineering pedigree in DevOps, release automation and build systems—having replaced error-prone manual release flows with nightly, self-service release pipelines at Nominum. Technically fluent in Python, C, Git/Perforce/CVS, cloud deployments, and full-stack work, he also contributes practical QA automation tooling and expanded test coverage in open-source projects like a Slack bot integration. James pairs deep debugging and QA experience across desktop, web and embedded domains with a penchant for pragmatic self-service tooling that reduces single points of failure. Based in Glendale, CA, he blends systems-level reliability engineering with developer-focused automation to make complex release processes routine and auditable.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Suffield Academy
Github Skills (7)
slack-api10
pytest10
python10
webapi9
regular-expression9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
scrapinghub/slackbot
Apr 2016 - Sep 2017
A chat bot for Slack (https://slack.com).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 18 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and improving the user experience of the Slackbot. They made several changes to the testing suite, including expanding test coverage and fixing existing unit tests. They also modified the dispatcher to handle bot mentions more effectively, including supporting different formats and addressing an issue with the handling of aliases. Additionally, they updated the web API integration to allow for attachment support and improved message formatting.
chatbotslack
anthroarts/hugo-linkcheck-action
Aug 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 4 months
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