Engineering Manager / Software Engineer
- Lead engineering work while continuing to build and maintain backend services.
- Operate across technical direction, implementation, reviews, and delivery.
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
Staff Software Engineer
- 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
- 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