Jim Dickinson
Senior Software Engineer at DataStax
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Dickinson is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building backend systems and DevOps tooling, currently focused on Go. He has progressed through hands-on engineering and lead roles at ShopWiki and CompStak and now drives backend reliability and platform work at DataStax. Jim brings deep practical experience shipping scalable services in production environments and mentoring engineering teams through growth phases. Trained in both economics and computer science at Princeton, he blends product-minded reasoning with sound system design. Quietly pragmatic, he favors durable, maintainable systems over flashy shortcuts and is often the engineer who turns operational headaches into repeatable infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Computer Science, Economics, Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (147)
env10
k8ssandra10
operator10
kubernetes-operator10
cql10
kubernetes10
cassandra10
datastax10
reaper10
recipe10
in-progress9
dotenv9
sidecar9
rest9
grpc9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
datastax/cass-operator
Jun 2019 - Oct 2021
The DataStax Kubernetes Operator for Apache Cassandra
Contributions:152 reviews, 177 commits, 167 PRs in 2 years 4 months
cassandraoperatorapachekubernetesdatastax
jimdickinson/ps5-kindness
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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