James Bellenger

holiday card enthusiast

[James Bellenger @jbell]

This seems like a fine time to look back on the rather decent API platform our team built at Twitter.

[James Bellenger @jbell]

Is this thing still on? Come to my #GraphQLConf talk if you're going this week. I promise it's going to be a good one.

[Airbnb Engineering @AirbnbEng]

We built a new GraphQL engine and launched it with 0 spec conformance bugs. How? Fuzz testing — finding the edge cases we didn't know to look for. James Bellenger is sharing how at #GraphQLConf 2026 @GraphQL
https://t.co/lGSYX51bAG

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@MoveAI_ This looks incredible! I'm making an animation for our annual "christmas card" in blender and this would be a huge help.

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@wackoisgod @superscarysnake Lol thanks Andrew

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@megankanne aww shit, thanks megan

[James Bellenger @jbell]

Fired a little less than 8 years in the tweet mines.

I loved working here.

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@JFSIII Thanks John

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@katiesievert @alunny Act III:
https://t.co/A9geVwUbEg

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@katiesievert @alunny God I love these tweets.

[Alex Levenson @THISWILLWORK]

I am going to miss this place. We built something special here, and I do not expect to see its like ever again. I have worked here at Twitter for over 11 years. Back in July, I was the 27th most tenured employee at the company. Now I'm the 15th. I am not going to click "yes"

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@ActualAmateur I really, truly loved working with you. Thank you for everything.

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@kng Incredible run! Onward and upward.

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@amesimmons @SkyHu You were an outstanding colleague. 💙

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@dasharez0ne omg, PRNIT TWEETE

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@msol mike you were seriously one of my favorite people to work with and someone I really deeply admired. Thank you for everything.

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@SkyHu awww shit sky, thank you

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@arivero @graphql_java This is accurate, GraphQL adoption has been very successful at twitter. Most external api calls now go through graphql then strato and then into a mix of thrift services that often front storage layers. GraphQL is a large percent of all inbound requests to https://t.co/zOJe3oiLgm

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@ryanoneill Thanks Ryan! I remember interviewing with you and thinking "ryan's a good dude, I could learn a lot from him". Thanks for everything.

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@TOfromthe360 @dasharez0ne no lie, @dasharez0ne and weird twitter was a big part of why I first wanted to work here

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@goyal_soniya Thanks Soniya! Same same.

[James Bellenger @jbell]

@justthisguy 🙏