Jim Sheldon
Principal Platform Engineer
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Sheldon is a Lead Operations Engineer with 14 years of experience reducing developer friction and operational toil across developer platforms and CI/CD tooling. He blends hands-on engineering and product leadership from roles at Recorded Future and Harness, moving from developer advocacy into principal product management and operations leadership. Jim has deep DevOps and build/release roots from long tenures at Meltwater and Russound, and contributes to developer-facing projects such as the Harness Developer Hub by improving UI, tutorials, and documentation. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs pragmatic automation skills with a developer-centric mindset, quietly specializing in making complex systems more usable and frictionless for engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
docusaurus10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
css8
documentation8
cicd6
githubaction-workflow5
github-ci5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
harness/developer-hub
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Harness Developer Hub
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 35 commits, 25 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the user interface and content of the Harness Developer Hub by fixing links and adding/updating tutorial listings. They modified landing page components, specifically `AllTutorials.tsx` and `ContinuousIntegration.tsx`, to include new tutorials and update descriptions. These changes involved updates to the user interface, including button styling and additions to the documentation pages. The user also merged branches and updated the release notes.
harness
jimsheldon/drone-quickstart
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
This repository provides configuration and instructions for how to get started with Drone CI
Contributions:9 commits, 25 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 months
drone-ci
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