# James Myers

> Software Engineer at Figma

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesmyers

Software engineer with a passion for systems programming. Looking to solve complex and interesting problems.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Brex
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Brex
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States

### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Company was acquired. Responsibilities did not change from previous role.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
BOSH
- An open source platform for securely managing and deploying distributed systems
- Worked to stabilize the team across multiple offices, and contributed to transitioning the product into becoming an efficient and secure tool for deploying Kubernetes clusters
- Some responsibilities as team lead include: holding long term knowledge on the project, on-boarding new team members, being contact point for engineering on the project, working with customers and product to determine the direction of the project

Diego
- An open source distributed system for container orchestration that is the core to Cloud Foundry
- Lead engineering efforts on the team to drive the project to it's first major version, become stable in production environments, and scale to manage over a quarter of a million containers

Cloud Foundry Container Runtime
- Worked in Dublin, Ireland for 3 months to provide experience and guidance to engineering
- Contributed to building a BOSH release for Kubernetes to be used in PKS
- Heavily inspired and contributed to an open source BOSH release for ETCD to replace existing implementation

Security Enablement
- Worked extensively on the product direction and implementation of the BOSH process manager that uses runc to execute processes in secure containers

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Software, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Cloud Foundry Runtime
- Worked on distributed container orchestration, user facing API design and implementation, and distributed routing and service discovery
- Increased the platform's stability in production environments and added a large number of user facing features

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Labs
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015

### Software Engineering Intern @ Pivotal Labs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco
- Back end and front end software development on data science collaboration tool, Greenplum Chorus
- Worked with many different database systems including Oracle, Hadoop, Greenplum DB, and HAWQ
- Extensive work with Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and Continuous Integration systems
- Worked in an agile environment with strict test driven development and pair


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jfmyers9
- GitHub: https://github.com/jfmyers9

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Last updated: 2026-04-11