Jim Flood
Staff Data Engineer
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorJim Flood is a Staff Data Engineer based in Charlotte with four decades of software experience and a recent focus on big data, cloud, and distributed systems. He has led and implemented large-scale Apache Spark, Scala, Python, SQL, Databricks and AWS solutions at Red Ventures and now applies that expertise at RVO Health. Equally comfortable in low-level languages like assembly and C as well as modern stacks including Ruby and JavaScript, he bridges systems-level performance thinking with clean, user-focused UX. His background spans networking and protocols, cryptography and full-stack development, which gives him a rare end-to-end perspective on reliability and security. A compulsive puzzle solver by nature, he enjoys untangling complex architectures and simplifying them into elegant, maintainable solutions. Despite a long career, he remains hands-on and enthusiastic about working with creative teams to ship impactful products.
11 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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openssl
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certificate
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networking
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rsa
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Github Skills (30)
ssl10
encryption10
rsa9
networking9
java9
security9
sqlite9
ssl-certificate9
aes9
openssl9
certificate9
socket9
embedded8
database8
ruby8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jimflood/aoc2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
jimflood/sqlite3-ruby
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
embedded-databaseruby-bindingssqlite3rubysqlite
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