James Ranson is a Platform Software Architect currently living in Denver Colorado. He has been with Comcast for over 8 years specializing in creating software and platforms that operate efficiently and scale horizontally. He is an expert on software development and release management, especially at the crossing point of agile methodologies and architecture.

Through the years James has designed several real-time dashboards that are used for Comcast's Video Operations, and recently developed an open source project, Trickster. Trickster is a dashboard accelerator for Prometheus, which is an open source system monitoring and alerting toolkit. James has a passion for nature and likes to spend his time exploring the mountains in Colorado. He also enjoys skiing and is a fan of the Denver Broncos.