James Greenhill

James Greenhill is currently a Software Engineer at PostHog. Prior to that, they were the Data Engineering Lead at Uber from October 2017 to August 2020. There, they planned and developed two generations of data pipelines used for NeMo / Jump. The first generation was for secure tunnels into Jump infrastructure for data extraction in realtime and in batch. The second generation was for extracting micromobility data from Uber backend services originally built for rideshare. James also coordinated requirements and timelines across seven+ internal data stakeholder organizations, including Data Science, Product Analytics, Executive Planning and Reporting, Firmware, Product Engineering, City Reporting, Internal Audit, and Fintech. In addition, they led a team of extremely talented Data and Backend Engineers developing realtime and batch analytics pipelines and tools to ensure data quality and timeliness (SLA compliance). James's focus was on minimizing being reactive to being proactive (monitoring and alerting, known communication channels, runbooks). James was also a Postgres pinch hitter. Before Uber, they were Principal Software Engineer at Silicon Valley Bank from July 2016 to October 2017. Professional Firefighter and Hat wearer.

James Greenhill reports to Tim Glaser, Co-Founder & CTO. James Greenhill works with Harry Waye - Software Engineer, Karl-Aksel Puulmann - Software Engineer, and Neil Kakkar - Software Engineer.