# James Raby > Software Engineer at Glooko Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesraby Software Engineer/Manager with extensive experience creating software solutions from cutting edge technologies. Market segments include: Health Care, eCommerce, Entertainment, Sports, Vacation Rentals and Office Productivity. Specialties include: Developing websites based on google infrastructure (appengine, cloud sql, maps) • Designing distributed systems on amazon cloud infrastructure (emr, workflow, ec2, rds, dynamo) • Developing android applications including google glassware. • Planning and execution of new business strategies • Creating energetic, motivated and productive teams ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Primer.ai Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Principle Software Engineer @ Glooko Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States I led the creation of a new Snowflake-based data warehouse, enabling the company to efficiently manage and analyze large volumes of blood glucose data. To optimize data transformations, I introduced DBT Cloud to the organization, overseeing its implementation and managing the vendor relationship. Additionally, I prototyped the use of the DBT Semantic Layer as a backend for the company’s reporting systems and web applications. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Tableau Software Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States As part of a project to integrate Salesforce and Tableau applications following Salesforce's acquisition of Tableau, I developed a connector to seamlessly link Tableau to Salesforce data. I designed backend models to store Tableau objects within the Salesforce backend, ensuring robust data architecture. Additionally, I implemented performance tests to validate that the prototype Tableau architecture met all specified requirements, demonstrating its efficiency and reliability. ### Software Engineer @ Tidepool Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States As part of a small development team, I implemented backend service improvements by migrating to Kubernetes and developing incremental features for our diabetes platform. I designed a sophisticated data storage strategy that enabled backend data distribution across multiple databases. This included a prototype for transitioning our backend database from MongoDB to TimescaleDB. This work enhanced our system's scalability and performance while maintaining architectural flexibility. ### Software Engineer @ Lonely Planet Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Software engineer on the Open Planet API team that created a travel data platform for lonely planets digital media products. The Open Planet platform utilizes Json APIs within a kubernetes micro service architecture to expose articles, reviews, POIs and other data to interested third party clients. ### Software Engineer @ Rincaro, LLP Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Mateo, CA Rincaro uses social media signals to predict trends in the financial markets. Designed and implemented systems based on Amazon cloud infrastructure and Weka machine learning algorithms to find signals in hundreds of terabytes of data. Utilized Amazon EMR to reduce the data, Amazon Dynamo to store millions of features, Amazon Workflow to evaluate tens of thousands of machine learning models and Amazon EC2 to process the resulting signal. ### Founder @ www.zplaybook.com Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Ramon, CA Developed software that enables basketball coaches, players and fans to diagram plays. All plays are stored in the cloud and are easily shared with teammates. Plays can be accessed from a variety of devices including pc's, android tablets/phones and iphone/ipad. Currently working on a google glassware application. ### Founder @ www.allabodes.com Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 | San Ramon, CA AllAbodes.com aggregates vacation rental listing from multiple sites. Listings are presented on a google maps overlay. Users can group, sort and filter listing to rapidly find desired properties. Streetview pictures are integrated with property photos to give users a comprehensive view of property locations. ### Software Engineer @ Consulting Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | San Ramon, CA Worked on various consulting projects within health care, networking and nutrition industry. ### President @ Fluent Health Technologies Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 Founded Fluent Health Technologies to deliver products and services into the healthcare sector. Fluent Health Technologies created an enterprise system that services large payors. This system utilizes many diverse technologies including data warehousing, speech recognition, workflow and internet. ### Sr Vice President of Engineering @ CBCA Jan 1999 – Jan 2004 CBCA formed from the merger of two internet companies: CareAssured.com and Carebid.com. Backed by blue chip silicon valley venture capital firms (Mobius Venture Capital, Trident Capital and ABS Ventures), CBCA is one of the top 5 Third Party Administrators in the United States. Managed the R&D team responsible for delivering leading edge internet products and services including a claims pre-adjudication system, claims data warehouse, customer website and conversational voice response system. ### Engineering Manager @ Silicon Graphics, Inc. Jan 1990 – Jan 1999 ### Engineering Manager @ Alias|Wavefront Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 ## Education ### BS in EECS University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/james-raby --- Source: https://flows.cv/jamesraby JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jamesraby/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10