Jim Reed
Engineering Director at Accelerant
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJim Reed is an experienced engineering director with 25+ years in software development and 11 years in senior leadership, specializing in building and scaling cloud-native SaaS platforms. He led Qlik’s Cloud Native Services group of 50+ engineers, delivering microservices for identity, access control, content management and analytics placement using Kubernetes, Go, Node.js, and React. A servant leader and team builder, Jim combines hands-on technical judgment with operational discipline—driving 10x scalability goals while keeping developer morale and product quality high. His background spans enterprise BI at IBM and Cognos to founding-scale execution at Accelerant, and he recently augmented his technical leadership with an MBA. Notably, Jim has a track record of shipping under pressure and turning constrained timelines and teams into reliable delivery outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering at University of VictoriaMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of Fredericton
Github Skills (9)
rest5
mashup4
helm3
docker2
kubernetes2
decode1
nodejs1
access-control1
testing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jimareed/docker-deployer
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 9 pushes in 1 month
jimareed/chordpro-editor
Jan 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:30 commits, 60 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
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