Connor James
Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarConnor James is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years building backend systems, developer tooling, and DevOps automation across startups and high-scale product teams. He currently ships software at Tesla and previously tech-led a team at FOSSA where he built Software Composition Analysis systems in Haskell and contributed to the widely used Fossa CLI for dependency and license/vulnerability scanning. Connor has led engineering teams and re-architected legacy platforms to accelerate release cadence, introduce containerized workflows, and automate build/test/deploy pipelines. His hands-on contributions span dependency graph generation, multi-package parsing, and GraphBuilder tooling, reflecting deep experience in dependency analysis and infrastructure integration. Comfortable in languages from Haskell to Node.js and Java, he combines systems thinking with pragmatic delivery to move complex codebases toward reliable, auditable releases. Colleagues describe him as a builder who surfaces non-obvious infrastructure improvements that materially improve velocity and observability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (9)
dependency-analysis10
build-automation9
go8
gradle7
gradlew7
maven7
clojure6
python6
clojure-cli6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fossas/fossa-cli
Apr 2019 - Feb 2022
Fast, portable and reliable dependency analysis for any codebase. Supports license & vulnerability scanning for large monoliths. Language-agnostic; integrates with 20+ build systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 60 reviews, 248 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Connor contributed to dependency analysis and build automation within the Fossa CLI project. Their commits focused on adding a "GraphBuilder" effect and related tooling within the project. They also made contributions to dependency parsing (e.g., requirements.txt, pom.xml) and dependency graph generation. Additionally, the user was involved in integrating new support for multiple package types.
build-systemdependency-analysisvulnerabilityopen-source-licensingopen-source-vulnerabilities
cnr/cgroup-rts-threads
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
A container-/cgroup-aware substitute for the GHC RTS `-N` flag
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 8 months
cgroupsghc
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