Joel James
Senior Software Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJoel James is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with over a decade of experience building production-ready systems across domains including observability, aviation data, and automotive services. He has held senior engineering roles at New Relic and Cirium and brought cross-industry rigor from Cox Automotive and LocalMed to large-scale distributed systems and data-rich applications. Comfortable spanning back-end services, application development, and operational concerns, he pairs an MS in Industrial Engineering (IT concentration) with practical experience translating complex requirements into reliable, maintainable software. Joel’s career path—from climate research applications at LSU to enterprise SaaS—reflects a knack for adapting engineering practices to new problem spaces and data constraints. Colleagues describe him as a steady senior contributor who blends systems thinking with hands-on coding to drive measurable product improvements.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Automobile Engineering, BE, Automobile Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityDon Bosco High SchoolMS, Industrial Engineering with IT concentartion, 3.6, MS, Industrial Engineering with IT concentartion, 3.6 at Louisiana State UniversityRed Rosary High School
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Github Skills (21)
newrelic10
middleware9
asciidoc9
backlog9
documentation8
http8
datatypes7
golang7
deprecated7
kafka-topic7
ruby-client6
ruby5
serialization5
kafka5
python5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
localmed/pyserializer
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
Simple python serialization library. It is an ORM agnostic library for converting python objects to and from native Python datatypes.
Contributions:11 releases, 29 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years
datatypesormpythonserialization
joeljames/py-shared-utils
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 4 PRs, 44 pushes in 10 months
pythonstandard-pythonthe-standard
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