James Woglom
wogloms.com • j@wogloms.com • 703-867-0609
EDUCATION
UMASS AMHERST
B.S., Computer Science
May 2020 | Amherst, MA
Dean’s List (All Semesters)
GPA: 3.83 / 4.0
THOMAS JEFFERSON H.S.
FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
June 2016 | Alexandria, VA
COURSEWORK
UNDERGRADUATE
Distributed Systems (Graduate-level)
Software Systems (Graduate-level)
Operating Systems (Graduate-level)
Digital Forensics (Graduate-level)
Computer Networks
Software Engineering
(with Undergraduate Course Citation)
SKILLS
LANGUAGES
Java • Go • Python • JavaScript
Bash • HCL
TECHNOLOGIES
Linux/UNIX • Git • Bazel • gRPC
HashiCorp Nomad • Consul
Terraform • Ansible • Docker
Kubernetes • Prometheus
Grafana Loki • Sentry
LINKS
github.com/jwoglom
linkedin.com/in/jameswoglom
wogloms.com/resume
wogloms.com/pgp-key.txt
CONTACT
j@wogloms.com
703-867-0609
Brooklyn/New York, NY
EXPERIENCE
YEXT Software Engineer - Production Engineering
June 2020 - present | New York, NY
• Designed changes to deployment congurations and deployment tooling for
migrating 3,000+ microservices to HashiCorp Nomad
• Migrated 1,000+ microservices to use a deployment of the Sentry
error-reporting tool in Google Kubernetes Engine, resulting in signicant
improvements to developer experience when tracing errors (see blog post)
• Improved Go error reporting in Sentry with custom stacktrace-parsing logic
• Designed and implemented functionality to simplify the process of taking nodes
ofine for scheduled maintenance in an internal service orchestrator
• Wrote training material used in the onboarding process for new engineers
describing how to deploy and troubleshoot code in production systems
GOOGLE Software Engineering Intern - Core Systems/Cloud
May 2019 - August 2019 | Sunnyvale, CA
• Helped build the DevOps Environment Service, a new backend for Google
Cloud Shell which provisions on-demand Kubernetes containers to end users
• Implemented functionality to archive inactive sessions and enforce time quotas
• Designed a system to relocate user sessions between servers based on location
YEXT Software Engineering Intern - Infrastructure
May 2018 - August 2018 | New York, NY
• Assisted in migration for company applications from a previous cluster
management solution to Kubernetes using industry-standard practices
• Developed a management interface in Go to provide centralized monitoring
and log information for microservice applications running in Kubernetes
• Developed a utility to analyze application coverage and build process statistics
VOLUNTEER
HACKUMASS Hackathon Organizer + Director
October 2018 - February 2020 | Amherst, MA
• Director for HackUMass VII, a 1,000 student hackathon with a $50,000 budget
• Managed a 15-person team responsible for logistics, sponsorship, and planning
• Helped build the open-source tech platform used by HackUMass+HackHer413
TJHSST COMPUTER SYSTEMS LAB Lead Student Administrator
December 2012 - June 2016 | Alexandria, VA
• Led and mentored student sysadmins in a computer systems research lab
• Managed web infrastructure used daily by 2,000 users with >500k req/month
PROJECTS
SIGNAL-CURSES CLI messaging app (github.com
/
jwoglom
/
signal-curses)
• Built a command-line interface for Signal (signal.org) using Python and ncurses
TCONNECTSYNC Health data sync (github.com
/
jwoglom
/
tconnectsync)
• Built a synchronization tool for health data by reverse-engineering a private API
TJ INTRANET Open-source software (github.com
/
tjcsl
/
ion)
• A web portal facilitating activity signups and attendance for students/teachers
• Co-creator of the system, built with Python, Django, LDAP and Kerberos
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