James Meickle

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Bio

James is a site reliability engineer at Quantopian, a crowd-sourced quantitative investment firm located in Boston, MA. His focus is developing the cloud architecture that supports the Quantopian community's Python trading algorithms. Prior to joining Quantopian, he worked as a site reliability engineer at Harvard, a developer evangelist at AppNeta, and a release engineer at Romney for President 2012. In his spare time James is a conference organizer for DevOpsDays Boston, now in its fourth year. He is also a meetup and conference speaker on topics including performance optimization, site reliability engineering, and devops tools. He is also quite committed to "soft skills" education focusing on organizational culture and human behavior, particularly when he can incorporate lessons learned from his background in psychology and political science.