Resumé

James Maunsell • he/they • Beacon, NY

Goals

Design robust backend architecture that enables empathetic user workflows

Skills

Fluent in Java, Go, Python, and Scala; familiarity with C and C++
Fluent in French
Software deployment within a microservice architecture
Compilers and code execution infrastructure
Systems design including distributed networks and operating systems
Building approachable user workflows with clean visual design

Industry Experience

Datadog

Senior Software Engineer / Oct. 2025 - present

Graphing - Reporting & Sharing

Owned and delivered CSV scheduled reports for Log Explorer and Notebooks analysis cells.

Software Engineer II / July 2022 - Oct. 2025

Graphing - Reporting & Sharing

Built product features and infrastructure for Datadog’s core product, dashboards. Built async pipeline for rendering PDF scheduled reports of dashboards.

Palantir Technologies

Software Engineer / Sept. 2019 – May 2022

Production Infrastructure

Worked (Oct. 2021-May 2022) in the Production Infrastructure group.

Wrote software to deploy software artifacts to air-gapped networks
Wrote software to orchestrate software deployment to Kubernetes clusters under security constraints

Foundry Code Workbooks

Worked (Sept. 2019-Oct. 2021) in the Foundry Analytics group on a coding environment for data scientists. Projects included:

Optimizing the product’s distributed Spark execution framework
Implementing Git-style merge functions on software objects
Expanding support for native R object types
Integrating with an adjacent programming environment to record software environment history

Software Engineering Intern / June-Aug. 2018 Interned on the Build Infrastructure team for the Gotham platform.

Refactored a build system for hundreds of Java plugins
As a Hack Week project, wrote a simpler replacement plugin build system that is still in use today

Nutanix Inc.

Software Engineering Intern / June-Aug. 2017

Designed and implemented a Python library for visually comparing time series data across bundles of low-level performance statistics
Supplemented library with a command-line tool for generating sets of plots

Nebulous Labs Inc.

Software Engineering Intern / May-Aug. 2016

Expanded test coverage for the core modules, API and command-line tool of a blockchain-based distributed cloud storage platform
Built and operated a Linux host server to monitor platform performance

Education

Massachusetts Insitute of Technology

B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering / Class of 2019 Graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (GPA 4.8/5.0) with a concentration in French.

Took graduate courses on computer systems engineering:
- Built a Linux-style operating system in C from a thin skeleton
- Wrote a Raft distributed key-value store in Go from the ground up
- Designed and built a Bluetooth mesh network iOS messaging app using Swift
Focused on compiler design, including:
- Led a team to build and optimize a C-style compiler from scratch in Scala for a project class
- Designed a cross-compiler from an actor-based Scala derivative to C, as part of a resource project with the MIT Programming Languages group
Pursued political science from an analytical perspective, with specific interests in technology policy and in the role of race in crime politics
Elected president (Sept. 2016-Sept. 2017) of a dormitory under transition, working closely with administration to advocate for a community largely comprised of students from underrepresented groups
Elected Treasurer of the MIT Bitcoin Club (Sept. 2016-May 2017), collaborating with the MIT Digital Currency Initiative

Service

Interviewer Interviewed 34 candidates for the system decomposition facet for the Palantir Foundry group (Feb.-Oct. 2021).

Trained two engineers to conduct interviews
Scoped potential DEI improvements that helped form the basis for a working group

Mentor Examples of mentoring include:

Mentored an intern with limited industry experience but strong capacity for growth (June-Sept 2021):

“Shoutout James for being the best mentor– extremely supportive, always patient, and full of wisdom! I seriously learned so much from him this summer and had a blast working together.”
Mentored a coworker in a non-software engineering role with strong engineering experience to join the engineering team (Jul. 2021-Mar. 2022)
Mentored a new hire with limited technical background, working with them to build problem-solving skills and showcase their strengths (Jan.-Mar. 2022)
Ramped up a new hire via intensive pair-programming (Nov. 2020-Feb. 2021)

Affinity Group Coordinator Served (July 2021-May 2022) as global coordinator of the Palantir transgender affinity group and New York coordinator of the Palantir LGBTQIA+ affinity group. Responsibilities were self-driven and included:

Direct mentorship of affinity group members, particularly those undergoing gender transition
Collaboration with the DEI group to ensure affinity group members feel safe and supported
Organization of community events, including an intersectional speaker series