James Pulver

I am a senior software development engineer with 10+ years building large-scale, high-availability backend systems, including over six years at Amazon-level scale and practices. I focus on Java (8–17), Spring Boot, microservices, and cloud-native architecture to deliver robust production software.

At Apple I design, implement, and maintain long-lived, mission-critical backend and system-level services, owning components end-to-end from requirements through deployment and production support. I emphasize correctness, scalability, performance, and reliability to ensure predictable behavior under high load and failure scenarios.

Previously I contributed as a senior individual contributor at Rapid7, designing backend services for security analytics and vulnerability management, improving maintainability through refactoring and stronger internal APIs, and diagnosing production performance bottlenecks. I started my career applying analytics and optimization techniques as an operations research analyst.

I am a trusted technical contributor known for ownership, execution, mentoring, deep debugging, and improving operational excellence through on-call rotations, post-incident analysis, and proactive reliability work. I aim to reduce latency, improve reliability, and scale systems to handle millions of requests per day.