James Barnes

James Hartig is the Co-founder of Admiral: Adblock Publisher Solutions, a company established in June 2015, located in Gainesville, Florida. Admiral specializes in providing a Visitor Relationship Management platform tailored for digital publishers. In his role, Hartig has led backend and DevOps teams to scale the platform to support billions of monthly pageviews. He has also focused on reducing cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) and developed an automated deployment system while managing the CI/CD pipeline. His technical expertise includes working with technologies such as Go, MongoDB, YugabyteDB, ClickHouse, and Google BigTable, along with creating monitoring systems for on-call handling.1

Prior to Admiral, Hartig worked as a Software Engineer at Grooveshark from August 2011 to May 2015, where he contributed to supporting a site with over 30 million users using technologies like JavaScript, PHP, MongoDB, Redis, and MySQL. He also held various roles in web design and development at companies like deVolf and Zotag Incorporated.1

Hartig holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida, completed in 2012.1