James Royal

Engineering manager and software engineer. Team leadership, hands-on delivery, and a preference for simple systems that stay easy to maintain.

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Software-focused engineering manager with a strong backend and infrastructure background. Comfortable moving between technical direction, implementation, code review, and supporting teams without adding unnecessary process.

experience

Engineering Manager / Software Engineer

Cloudflare | Austin | 2017 - present

  • Lead engineering work while continuing to build and maintain backend services.
  • Operate across technical direction, implementation, reviews, and delivery.

Staff Software Engineer

IBM | Austin | 2013 - 2017

  • Developed, tested, deployed, and maintained microservices powering IBM Autoscaling for Docker Containers.
  • Authored and maintained an internal Python framework supporting logging, metrics, Swagger documentation, and service discovery across IBM Cloud services.
  • Built tooling for Grafana dashboard generation to make metrics rollout across regions more reliable and maintainable.
  • Created a framework for composing and deploying Jenkins job configuration from git-backed source.

Refining Systems Intern

Valero Energy Corp | San Antonio | Summer 2012

  • Converted an existing web-based dashboard UI into a mobile application using Apache Cordova.

education

BSc in Computer Science | University of Texas at Austin | 2009 - 2013