Jim King
AI-HPC Storage Engineer at NVIDIA
Westford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim King is an AI-HPC storage engineer and seasoned software leader with 10+ years building durable, large-scale distributed systems across startups and hyperscale cloud services. He has driven architecture and execution from founding Tuono to leading core storage and data-movement platforms at AWS and now NVIDIA, repeatedly shipping production systems that move petabytes reliably and efficiently. Jim blends deep systems and C++ expertise with full-stack delivery—authoring data planes, microservices, UIs, and infrastructure IaC—and has a track record of inventing practical abstractions like a bi-directional IaC language and a patented CDC database. He’s an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects such as Ansible, Apache Thrift, and django-simple-history, improving robustness and operational observability. Known for turning ambiguous problems into operational value, he also mentors engineers, reduced OpEx nearly 50% with adaptive scaling, and champions compliance-driven engineering (FIPS/FedRAMP). Based in Westford, MA, Jim pairs startup grit with enterprise-scale engineering judgment to deliver resilient, auditable storage and data systems.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyUMass LowellSudbury MA, Sudbury MA at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
Github Skills (23)
c-language10
python10
django10
testing10
microsoft-azure10
networking10
automation10
ansible10
azure10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
thrift10
cprogramming-language10
devops10
server10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
apache/thrift
Nov 2016 - Apr 2022
Apache Thrift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 9 reviews, 292 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jim contributed to bug fixes and enhancements to the C++ codebase of the Apache Thrift project. Their work included addressing receive timeout issues in the TConnectedClient class, supporting the RelWithDebInfo build type on Windows, and handling exceptions during message processing. The user also updated the server by adding an immediate transport response for ONEWAY requests. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving stability and functionality within the core server infrastructure.
thriftdcplusplusdartactionscript
django-commons/django-simple-history
Aug 2021 - May 2022
Store model history and view/revert changes from admin site.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 85 reviews, 15 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the Django-based back-end logic of the project, focusing on the `simple-history` library. Their work involved bug fixes, specifically related to the `latest()` function and ensuring idempotency. They also added new features, such as queryset-based filtering with `as_of`, and refactored the code to support and integrate with features. This included modifications to tests and documentation, as well as changes to the project's build processes.
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