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James Adams

@jamesadams1

I build high-throughput data platforms and ML infrastructure for production AI applications.

United States
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I'm rebuilding cloud-native data and document-processing platforms at Clara Analytics, where I replaced legacy Lambda and SQL workflows with Python microservices on Kubernetes. My work delivered 90% test coverage, a 4x reduction in incident diagnosis time, 37x throughput improvement, and 68% lower costs.

I've partnered directly with data scientists at Opensignal and Verisk to design ETL pipelines, productionize and retrain ML models, and build MLOps workflows with Databricks and MLflow. I work deeply across Python, Spark, Polars, AWS, Terraform, Airflow, and Kubernetes.

Earlier, I trained computer-vision models and developed the open-source cvdata library, while at NOAA I built climate-data processing systems and software for the U.S. Drought Portal.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

CA
Current

Senior Data Engineer

Clara Analytics

May 2024 - Present (2 years 4 months)

Led end-to-end rewrite of a cloud-native document-processing ingestion platform, achieving ~90% test coverage and a 4x reduction in mean time to diagnose production incidents. Rewrote AWS Glue jobs to replace Spark with Polars, achieving a 37x throughput improvement and 68% cost reduction.

SC

Machine Learning Engineer

SCW

Feb 2019 - Jan 2020 (11 months)

Trained and deployed deep-learning computer-vision and facial recognition models with TensorFlow, Keras, and PyTorch. Developed the open-source 'cvdata' Python library for CV dataset creation and annotation conversion.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

College of Charleston logoCC

College of Charleston

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the College of Charleston.

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