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I am a Senior Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure and high-performance APIs using TypeScript, Python, Ruby on Rails, and cloud-native technologies. I have worked across industries including global social platforms (Meta), hedge funds, insurance, retail, and healthcare, leading cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and scalable systems. I focus on reliability, security, and performance, mentoring engineers and driving cross-team technical initiatives. I enjoy tackling complex distributed systems problems, designing observability and incident response practices, and collaborating with product managers, SREs, and stakeholders to ship resilient software.…I am a Senior Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure and high-performance APIs using TypeScript, Python, Ruby on Rails, and cloud-native technologies. I have worked across industries including global social platforms (Meta), hedge funds, insurance, retail, and healthcare, leading cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and scalable systems. I focus on reliability, security, and performance, mentoring engineers and driving cross-team technical initiatives. I enjoy tackling complex distributed systems problems, designing observability and incident response practices, and collaborating with product managers, SREs, and stakeholders to ship resilient software.

Eric K James

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I am a Senior Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure and high-performance APIs using TypeScript, Python, Ruby on Rails, and cloud-native technologies. I have worked across industries including global social platforms (Meta), hedge funds, insurance, retail, and healthcare, leading cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and scalable systems. I focus on reliability, security, and performance, mentoring engineers and driving cross-team technical initiatives. I enjoy tackling complex distributed systems problems, designing observability and incident response practices, and collaborating with product managers, SREs, and stakeholders to ship resilient software.…I am a Senior Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure and high-performance APIs using TypeScript, Python, Ruby on Rails, and cloud-native technologies. I have worked across industries including global social platforms (Meta), hedge funds, insurance, retail, and healthcare, leading cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and scalable systems. I focus on reliability, security, and performance, mentoring engineers and driving cross-team technical initiatives. I enjoy tackling complex distributed systems problems, designing observability and incident response practices, and collaborating with product managers, SREs, and stakeholders to ship resilient software.

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I am a Senior Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure and high-performance APIs using TypeScript, Python, Ruby on Rails, and cloud-native technologies. I have worked across industries including global social platforms (Meta), hedge funds, insurance, retail, and healthcare, leading cross-functional teams to deliver reliable and scalable systems.

I focus on reliability, security, and performance, mentoring engineers and driving cross-team technical initiatives. I enjoy tackling complex distributed systems problems, designing observability and incident response practices, and collaborating with product managers, SREs, and stakeholders to ship resilient software.

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Senior Staff Engineer (E6) at Meta

April 1, 2025 - April 1, 2025

Implemented high-performance data ingestion services in RoR processing billions of metrics per day with a 99.99% uptime SLA. Built internal platform SDKs exposing GraphQL and REST APIs for dashboards and alert rules, improving feature velocity. Used RoR, Docker containers, Azure App Service, and Kubernetes to create a health service API. Implemented core data-processing pipelines in Node, improving memory management and reducing average latency by 35%. Developed dynamic Python configuration loader enabling zero-downtime reloads for observability agents deployed to 100k+ nodes. Improved latency of distributed log processing by over 50% through redesigned worker fan-out with Kafka and gRPC. Participated in on-call rotations and postmortems and authored service run books and recovery playbooks. Collaborated with product managers and SREs to define SLIs and SLOs with real-time dashboards and proactive alerts.

Senior Staff Engineer at Syberry

April 1, 2025 - November 25, 2025

Designed and optimized a high-throughput API gateway using Node.js and NestJS, ensuring low latency, fault-tolerance, and scalability across multiple services. Integrated Prometheus for real-time metrics, OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing, and Kafka for event-driven architecture, improving system observability. Developed performance-critical Python modules integrated with Rails-based services, improving core request-processing paths by 20%. Utilized Celery for distributed task processing and PostgreSQL for database optimization. Migrated legacy monolith components to a distributed Node.js microservice system, utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, and RabbitMQ for containerization, orchestration, and messaging. Reduced deployment time by 30% and improved MTTR by introducing CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab. Developed full-stack features with Node.js and React (with Redux) to enable customers to manage and sell inventory online. Integrated the backend with MongoDB and GraphQL for effi