Jim Ray
Developer Relations
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Ray is a developer relations leader with 13 years of experience turning complex technical problems into clear, usable experiences for developers and product teams. He has a deep background at Slack—rising from Developer Support to Director roles—and now shapes developer-facing strategy at Bluesky Social, blending hands-on engineering sensibilities with advocacy. Jim pairs technical writing and documentation improvements (notably contributions to the popular python-slack-sdk) with product-focused prototyping and consulting, so he can both articulate and ship solutions. Early roles in newsroom technology and as a founding technologist at The California Sunday Magazine give him a practical edge in building publishing and editorial systems under tight deadlines. Colleagues rely on him to find where he can be most valuable, iterate quickly, and simplify complexity without losing nuance.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Journalism Anthropology Computer Science, Journalism Anthropology Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stackoverflow
117reputation
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Github Skills (11)
rs10
documentation10
api-documentation9
bots6
websocket6
slack-api6
rtm6
slack-block-kit6
slack-commands6
slack6
python6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
slackapi/python-slack-sdk
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Slack Developer Kit for Python
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jim's commits primarily focus on updating and improving the documentation within the `python-slack-sdk` repository. The changes include restructuring the introduction, updating code blocks on the authentication and basic usage pages, and rewriting the conversations documentation. This suggests a focus on clarity, accuracy, and user experience within the documentation. The user fixed broken links and code sample errors.
pythonslackslackapiasyncioaiohttp-client
jimray/config
Jul 2017 - Apr 2026
Contributions:5 PRs, 113 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 10 months
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