James Pinckney

Senior Software Engineer

About

Hi, I'm James. I'm a Senior Software Engineer specializing in platform engineering and distributed systems. I design and build the infrastructure and systems that engineering teams depend on, ranging from Kafka clusters to CI/CD pipelines. I'm passionate about automation, reliability, and enabling other engineers to ship faster.

Engineering Principles

Event Driven Architecture Domain Driven Design System Design Test Driven Development Platform Engineering

Cloud

AWS MongoDB Atlas Docker Kubernetes (EKS) OpenShift

CI/CD & Automation

GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions Ansible

Languages

Python NodeJS/Typescript Golang Shell Scripting Java

Observability

Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack TICK Stack Datadog Dynatrace Open Telemetry

Security

Snyk SCA/SAST Twistlock Threat Modeling Wiz.io

Generative AI

Prompt Engineering RAG MCP Agentic Orchestration LangChain

Experience

Travelers 2019 - Present

Senior Software Engineer 2023 - Present

Delivery ResponsibilityProduct ManagementConfluent KafkaPlatform Engineering

Software Engineer II 2023 - 2025

KafkaGitHub ActionsAWSOpenshiftTerraform

Software Engineer I 2019 - 2023

DockerAnsibleMongoDB AtlasGitLab CI/CD

University of Hartford - Department of Computing Sciences 2016 - 2020

Lead Systems Administrator 2018 - 2020

People ManagementLeadership PresentationsBudget Consultation

System Administrator 2016 - 2018

DockerActive DirectoryMDT

University of Hartford 2016 - 2020

B.S. Computer Science 2016 - 2020