James Wheatley

James Wheatley is an experienced technology professional with a focus on software engineering and extensibility solutions. Currently serving as Team Lead and Extensibility Engineer at Arista Networks since July 2021, James specializes in consulting and custom solution development, overseeing projects from proposal to deployment. Prior experience includes roles as Senior Tech Specialist at AT&T, contributing to the Vyatta vRouter and DANOS open source project, and as a Software Engineer at Vyatta and Cisco Systems, where James worked on various networking solutions and automated testing. James holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from The University of Edinburgh and studied at the University of Helsinki. Early career experience includes software engineering internships and customer service roles in electronics retail.