Jim Hurne
Principal Software Engineer at Gradle Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJim Hurne is a Principal Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience building cloud-native, high-throughput systems and leading cross-functional teams. He has driven architecture and delivery at Gradle and previously led Watson Discovery ingestion and API design at IBM, where his work boosted pipeline throughput by 200% and supported 24/7 reliability. A pragmatic mentor and technical leader, he has a track record of shortening development cycles (e.g., connector development at Vivisimo) and formalizing API and security best practices across large product portfolios. Based in Pittsburgh and experienced across enterprise search, content management, and distributed stream processing, he combines hands-on engineering with strong mentorship and a habit of adopting new technologies to solve hard problems.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Messiah University
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Github Skills (137)
intellij-idea10
maven-extension10
validating10
maven10
gradle-plugin10
build-configuration10
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groovy10
dsl10
java-client10
kafka10
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mock-server10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gradle/develocity-build-validation-scripts
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Executable scripts to assist in validating that your Gradle and Maven builds are in an optimal state in terms of maximizing work avoidance when using Develocity.
Contributions:1 release, 271 reviews, 855 commits in 1 year 8 months
enterprisegradlemavenbuildsandroid
gradle/backend-code-project
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
A scaffold for the Develocity Backend Engineer code project assignment.
Contributions:9 reviews, 73 PRs, 135 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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