James Wilson

jamesw_061@outlook.com ☎ +353 833 634 997 ⚲ Dublin 🛠 GitHub

Technical Skills

C# Python Javascript .Net Core MongoDB MSSQL Valkey / Redis Azure AWS ECS S3 Docker Kubernetes Terraform GitHub Actions Linux OAuth + Identity MQTT RabbitMQ SNS 0mq

Employment

Acre Security - L3 Engineer Oct. 2022 - Present
  • Previously Vanderbilt International.
  • Collaborated with multiple business units to implement a unified DevOps strategy.
  • Technical lead for backend services. Driving design and implementation across multiple projects.
  • Designed and created an cloud access control product's MQTT implementation for thousands of edge devices. Including onboarding flow
  • Created on prem implementation of cloud product, replacing cloud components with open source alternatives in all microservices + created production automation.
  • Lead technical initiatives to overhaul backend components.
  • Worked on AI chat system + tooling allowing users to access and process their data in a multi-tenanted system safely in a natural language interface.
  • Aided hardware teams in producing a new board based on Yocto with a custom web interface. Including building out a build pipeline so it can be run on x86 machines.
  • Overhauled local development and debugging workflow
  • Migrated containerised services to ARM on AWS for ~30% ECS hosting cost savings.
Fidelity Investments - Senior Software Developer Jan. 2022 - Oct. 2022
  • Responsible for onboarding and maintaining the Azure platform via an API platform for company-wide development teams.
  • Led feature development, design sessions, code reviews, and mentored junior developers.
  • Tech Stack: .Net Core, Powershell, Azure App Services, AKS, Cosmos DB, SQL Server.
Vanderbilt International - Software Engineer Apr. 2019 - July 2020
  • Led architecture for a biometric fingerprint reader integration project.
  • Lead developer for a video streaming platform; resolved critical security flaws and technical debt.
  • Managed IoT-like architecture involving security cameras and Linux-based microservices.
Infosys - Software Engineer Sept. 2018 - Apr. 2019
  • Developed Python-based ETL tools and re-configured MongoDB for production-ready security and sharding.
  • Implemented search and content tagging services and created data retrieval APIs.
  • Standardized team programming practices (test coverage, git workflows).
Syncronology - Developer Jan. 2015 - Aug. 2017
  • Software developer for a hosted document control and business workflow creation product built on a Microsoft stack (Server, SQL, IIS, SharePoint).
  • Worked in a small dev team in an agile environment maintaining the system, implementing and leading customer-focused projects using C#, SQL + Javascript.
  • Designed, scheduled work and assigned tasks to remote developers.

Projects

Kubernetes game servers 2022 - Present

Hosting private game servers on bare metal Kubernetes clusters, from building out bespoke containers to Helm charting, deployment and update automation.

Education

University of Cumbria
BSc Computing | 2012 - 2016