James Broadhead
Member Of Technical Staff at Databricks
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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RockstarJames Broadhead is a seasoned software leader and engineer with 16 years’ experience, based in Dublin and currently a Member of Technical Staff at Databricks following Neon’s acquisition in 2025. He has repeatedly scaled engineering organisations and products—at Neon he drove GA and >10x ARR growth while growing the engineering team from ~55 to 100+, and at MongoDB he led efforts to modernize cloud architecture and developer productivity. James blends strategic product judgment with engineering craft, introducing reliability and incident-review programs, public post-mortems, and building an AI Agent team that shipped an open-source app builder and Azure integrations. Hands-on at heart, he’s led backend and frontend teams at Twitter and contributed test automation to the well-known calibre e-book manager, underscoring a deep focus on testability and developer experience. His background as a reserve sergeant and a PhD researcher in software radio gives him a disciplined, analytical approach to long-term systems and team culture.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Irish, French
Stackoverflow
1,928reputation
227kreached
11answers
2questions
Github Skills (19)
unittesting10
test-automation10
python10
unittest10
unittests10
calibre9
workmanager8
user-manager8
ebooklib8
pytest7
http-headers6
embedding6
command-line6
http6
bash6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
kovidgoyal/calibre
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:James focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure for the calibre ebook manager. They implemented new tests for the library module, ensuring its functionality. The contributions included adding test methods, fixing existing tests to improve accuracy, and integrating new test cases. The user also refactored and improved existing test code, demonstrating a focus on test coverage and reliability.
ebookebook-formatsebookspythonkindle
jbanother/shoppingcart
May 2017 - Jan 2022
interview exercise
Contributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 6 pushes in 4 years 8 months
interview-exercise
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