James Westfall
Senior Testingeniør at Neat
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Westfall is a senior test automation engineer based in Oslo with two decades of software experience and nine years focused in his current technical trajectory. He combines deep hands-on skills in Python, embedded Linux, Android and full-stack development with DevOps pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, TeamCity, Ansible) and observability via the Elastic Stack. James has shipped test automation and backend services (Node, C#) across industries from consultancy to hardware-driven firms like TOMRA and Neat, and applies ML techniques (scikit-learn, AIOps) to improve test intelligence and reliability. A pragmatic architect and committed mentor, he has a long history of structured knowledge transfer and cross-functional collaboration. Fluent in five languages, he brings uncommon communication breadth to distributed engineering teams and a track record of turning complex embedded and cloud systems into verifiable, production-ready software.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Cypress CollegeMasters, Masters at University of California, Los AngelesBachelors, Magne Cum Laude, Bachelors, Magne Cum Laude at University of California, Irvine
Norwegian, French, Spanish, German, English
Github Skills (52)
tdd8
testing8
bdd7
tiddlywiki7
test-framework7
cpp7
email-client6
database-server6
dynamic-data5
test-data4
console4
nodejs4
smtp4
python4
behave4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fallwest/tiddly-node-saver
Apr 2018 - Nov 2024
A node.js server for Classic TiddlyWiki
Contributions:8 releases, 5 PRs, 42 pushes in 6 years 7 months
jstiddlywikinode-js-servernode-jstiddlywiki5
behave-contrib/try-behave
Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
Try Behave (BDD, Python style) directly in the browser using Pyodide
Contributions:11 reviews, 80 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 8 months
bddpyodidepythontestingwebassembly
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