James Van Dyke
Co-Founder & CTO at InsightStack
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJames Van Dyke is a hands-on technology leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO with over two decades of software experience and a 12-year track record in product engineering and platform architecture. He specializes in full-stack systems using TypeScript, VueJS, Ruby on Rails, and Elixir, and has driven large-scale platform modernizations—rewriting billing in Elixir to support millions of requests per hour. James blends strategic roadmap ownership with day-to-day engineering, leading cross-functional initiatives like SSO, RBAC, i18n, and accessibility while founding an internal AI Community of Practice to accelerate adoption. An early open-source contributor, he authored the initial Chef provisioner for HashiCorp’s widely used Packer project, reflecting deep DevOps and backend chops. Based in Raleigh, NC, he’s now focused on building AI tooling and agentic workflows that boost developer velocity and product innovation.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
French, English
Stackoverflow
4,910reputation
1.5mreached
20answers
6questions
css
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npm
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angularjs-directive
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unit-testing
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bower
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jasmine
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Github Skills (24)
chef-client10
packer10
go10
chef-solo10
templating10
bower9
npm9
unit-testing9
angularjs-directive9
css9
configuration-management9
angularjs9
devops9
jasmine9
php6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the Chef Solo provisioner within the Packer repository. Their work involved implementing features for Chef Solo integration, including the creation of configuration files, attribute uploads, and command execution. The commits demonstrate the development of core functionality, the use of templating, and integration with the existing Packer framework for machine image creation. Furthermore, the user refactored the Chef Solo provisioner, incorporating new configuration options.
packer
jvandyke/vscode-circleci
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensioncirclecivisual-studio
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