James Walker
Senior Economic Development Consultant at USA ID
McLean, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorJames Walker is a Senior Economic Development Consultant based in McLean, Virginia with 16 years of professional experience and a long-standing tenure at USA ID. He combines policy and program expertise in economic development with hands-on technical contributions, including improvements to JRuby's activerecord-jdbc-adapter to better support Microsoft SQL Server. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he bridges analytic rigor and implementation, improving database interoperability and date/time handling in production systems. His work reflects an unusual blend of development-focused contributions to open source and strategic consulting for public-sector economic initiatives.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
activerecord10
sql-server10
jruby10
sql10
jdbc10
ruby9
database-design9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter
May 2010 - Aug 2010
JRuby's ActiveRecord adapter using JDBC.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:22 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `activerecord-jdbc-adapter` repository by modifying the MSSQL adapter. Their work focused on improving the adapter's compatibility with Microsoft SQL Server, including handling case-sensitive collations for primary keys and table names, enhancing date/time handling, and addressing issues with schema support. The user also refactored the code to use existing methods and added support for JDBC URL parameters.
railsrubyadapteractiverecord-adapterjruby
jcosmo/scoutmgr
Feb 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 157 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 6 months
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