Will James
Staff Software Engineer at dbt Labs
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolWill James is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating high-performance distributed systems, data pipelines, and observability platforms. Currently at dbt Labs after leading infrastructure and real-time monitoring efforts at Instana, he blends backend JVM and reactive programming expertise with hands-on work in Kafka, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Kubernetes. He is equally comfortable shipping front-end features (React/WebSockets) and improving developer productivity through CI/CD, testing, and tooling. His background spans decentralized storage, embedded systems, and numerical research from projects at Storj, CAMotion, and Georgia Tech, giving him a rare mix of systems-level rigor and product-focused engineering. Based in Austin, he’s driven by applying automation and data engineering to improve human outcomes and is known for learning new technologies quickly and applying them pragmatically.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Mechanical Engineering, MS Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (170)
storekit10
elasticsearch10
k8s10
operator10
charts10
linux10
kubernetes-operator10
playing10
helm10
swift10
kubernetes10
search-engine10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
instana/instana-agent-operator
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
A Kubernetes operator to install and manage the Instana agent.
Contributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 75 commits in 1 year 6 months
agentoperatorkubernetesinstanakubernetes-operator
StorjOld/downstream-farmer
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:5 releases, 223 commits, 2 PRs in 4 months
farmerstorj
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