James Dixon
Artificial Intelligence Tester Trainer at Multiple Companies
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Dixon is a veteran technology leader and data architect who coined the term "Data Lake" and has spent two decades building BI platforms, ETL pipelines, OLAP systems, and visualization solutions. As founder and long-time technologist at Pentaho and current CTO of a stealth startup in Florida, he blends hands-on backend and frontend engineering with strategic data architecture advisory work. His experience spans founding multiple product teams since the mid-1990s, guiding organizations on data transformation, cleansing, and go-coding to make analytics practical and auditable. James is an active open-source contributor, having improved Pentaho's Data Access Wizard by fixing MQL logic, adding localization, and enhancing metadata services. He combines a practitioner’s eye for pragmatic system design with a historian’s perspective on BI evolution, making him as comfortable defining architectures as shipping the code that powers them. A Southampton-educated computer scientist, he brings entrepreneurial grit and deep domain expertise to complex data problems.
19 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Honours Computer Science, B.Sc Honours Computer Science at University of SouthamptonHigh School, High School at Upton Court Grammar School (Formerly Slough Grammar School)
Github Skills (8)
javas10
metadata10
data-access10
java10
javascript9
localization9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pentaho/data-access
Apr 2011 - Jun 2011
Pentaho Data Access Wizard
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the Pentaho Data Access Wizard by fixing bugs and adding features to its underlying logic. They corrected an issue within the MQL model and integrated localization for various data access client API types. The user also addressed type errors and made enhancements to aggregation constants. Additionally, they added a metadata service call and merged updates from the main branch.
pentaho
jjeb/kettle-trunk
Jun 2007 - Aug 2012
Contributions:193 commits in 5 years 2 months
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