Jim White
Contract Software Engineer at Self-employed
Gilbert, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim White is a seasoned contract software engineer and IoT/edge specialist with over 25 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise, mobile, and embedded systems. A co-founder of EdgeX Foundry and former CTO of IOTech Systems, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps work (notably contributions to the edgex-go monorepo and Consul integrations) with product and open-source leadership. He has led large cross-functional teams at Dell Technologies, architected cloud-native and microservice solutions, and authored influential Java/mobile training and publications. Equally comfortable mentoring junior engineers and authoring course content, he continues to teach and build production-grade systems—most recently creating a DataCamp Intro to Java course and implementing Spring Boot/GraphQL batch backends for public sector clients.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of MinnesotaBS Computer Science and Mathematics, BS Computer Science and Mathematics at Dickinson College
Github Skills (6)
consul10
go10
devops10
logging9
api8
apim8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
edgexfoundry/edgex-go
Dec 2017 - May 2022
EdgeX Golang Services Monorepo | Owner: Core/Support WG
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:126 reviews, 216 commits, 134 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on enhancing the EdgeX Golang Services Monorepo by integrating and configuring services to work with Consul. This involved significant changes to the `export-client` and `export-distro` services to initialize them on Consul. The commits also included adding logging improvements. The user also updated the `version.go` file.
golangmonorepoedgexowner-coreowner
edgexfoundry/docker-edgex-volume
May 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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