James Denness
Mentor
(12 reviews)
US$30.00
For every 15 mins
36
Sessions/Jobs
ABOUT ME
Software and Infrastructure Coach
Software and Infrastructure Coach
Pleased to meet you. I'm a Ruby developer, software architect, technical coach and infrastructure engineer, and I've been designing, developing and working with emerging technology for more than 10 years. I'm looking forward to working with you to help you improve your skills, take a new career direction, or perhaps just fill your spare time learning something new.
I'd be very happy to talk about AWS, Ruby, Linux, Docker and Containerisation, Networking (including switching and routing), Configuration Management (such as Puppet), or more general software and infrastructure concepts.
I'm a certified AWS Solutions Architect at the professional level, and a certified subject specialist in Security and Advanced Networking.
English
Stockholm (+02:00)
Joined October 2018
EXPERTISE
7 years experience
Many major production projects, over a career of more than 10 years.
Many major production projects, over a career of more than 10 years.
15 years experience | 7 endorsements
Linux (or another variety of Unix) is the operating system of choice for most of the world's server systems. I've been working with it, i...
Linux (or another variety of Unix) is the operating system of choice for most of the world's server systems. I've been working with it, in its various different forms, for many years.
15 years experience | 5 endorsements
Previously a consultant network engineer for a large consultancy in London, and more recently designing and managing an enterprise networ...
Previously a consultant network engineer for a large consultancy in London, and more recently designing and managing an enterprise network spanning three continents.
5 years experience
I use Puppet to provision everything, often with custom facts, types and providers. You could too!
I use Puppet to provision everything, often with custom facts, types and providers. You could too!
5 years experience
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional)
15 years experience | 2 endorsements
I've been writing scripts since I was in school, and sometimes it's still more convenient to reach for a bash script instead of using a m...
I've been writing scripts since I was in school, and sometimes it's still more convenient to reach for a bash script instead of using a more advanced language such as Ruby or Python.
4 years experience
Python is everywhere at the moment, and I've used it in all kinds of situations, most recently in serverless applications and as part of ...
Python is everywhere at the moment, and I've used it in all kinds of situations, most recently in serverless applications and as part of deployment pipelines.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(12 reviews)
Craig Lillard
April 2020
james was available to assist me with some AWS and cloudfront questions I had. Thanks James for your help! He quickly gave me some good ideas and helped clarify some issues for me. Thanks James!
Shaun B
October 2018
Very professional and helpful
David Ilgunas
October 2018
Another great help, getting my issue one step closer to being fixed!
Aaron Azlant
October 2018
Highly recommended
David Ilgunas
October 2018
Very professional, knowledgable and thorough. Keen to provide a resolution, agreed to catch up the next day, as I am unable to test the remote end of the VPN. Would definitely recommend.
Ayaz
October 2018
Great knowledge of perl. He was able to help debugg the issue quickly.
SOCIAL PRESENCE
kepler
Ruby gem for orbital calculation
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monotony
Monopoly game engine gem
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EMPLOYMENTS
Lead Platform Engineer (DevOps)
Cloud Projects AS
2014-10-01-Present
Responsible for designing and delivering a real-time platform serving customers across the globe, improving and managing release and depl...
Responsible for designing and delivering a real-time platform serving customers across the globe, improving and managing release and deployment pipelines, and technical direction of development and operations teams in the field of continuous delivery and 'infrastructure as code'.
Ruby
Linux
Bash
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Ruby
Linux
Bash
Shell
Puppet
Network
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Senior Systems Engineer
Mind Candy
2013-04-01-2014-10-01
London, United Kingdom Systems and site reliability engineer managing Puppet, Cisco ASA firewalls and large-scale web application deploym...
London, United Kingdom Systems and site reliability engineer managing Puppet, Cisco ASA firewalls and large-scale web application deployments. Ruby and Python development, and day-to-day management of Xen virtualisation and ZXTM traffic management. Working both in reactive system support and long-term project development. Forward Internet Group
Ruby
Python
Linux
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Ruby
Python
Linux
Bash
Shell
VMware
Network
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Senior Systems Engineer
Forward Internet Group
2011-10-01-2013-04-01
Systems engineer, full-stack web developer and problem solver. Managing an enterprise network, VMWare estate and tool development.
Systems engineer, full-stack web developer and problem solver. Managing an enterprise network, VMWare estate and tool development.
Python
Linux
Bash
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Python
Linux
Bash
Shell
VMware
Puppet
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