Jim Plush
Distinguished Engineer at CrowdStrike
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJim Plush is a Distinguished Engineer with over 15 years building high‑throughput, distributed data platforms and leading cloud architecture at scale. He has designed and shipped systems handling hundreds of thousands of events per second and multi‑petabyte Cassandra clusters, and led Kafka, Graphite, and Hadoop adoption across enterprise environments. A hands‑on technical director and recruiter, he blends VP‑level strategy with code contributions—he authored popular open‑source projects such as Goose (a widely used Scala article extractor) and a Go Kafka client for at‑least‑once fault‑tolerant processing. Jim is a seasoned speaker on cloud, telemetry and blue/green deployment patterns and often surfaces practical operational lessons from production incidents. Based in California, he favors Go, Scala and Python and is known for turning messy, web‑scale data problems into resilient, maintainable architectures.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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19answers
124questions
text-files
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
java10
exception-handling9
text-files9
http9
alchemyapi6
html6
ant6
hadoop6
python6
parsing6
apache-pig6
scala6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
GravityLabs/goose
Dec 2010 - Nov 2012
Html Content / Article Extractor in Scala - open sourced from Gravity Labs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:129 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jim's commits focused on building out core functionality within the "goose" repository, which appears to be a content extraction tool. They added and modified Java files such as Article.java, HtmlFetcher.java, and ContentExtractor.java and the addition of an NotHtmlException class suggesting they were working on the core system. The commits involve the creation of new classes, methods, and improvements to core aspects of the project.
scala
CrowdStrike/gotel
Aug 2014 - Feb 2018
GoTel - Scheduled job monitoring
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 7 months
monitoring
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