Summary
James Andariese is a seasoned DevOps and SRE engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, automated infrastructure for companies from startups to scale-ups. He has led SRE/DevOps teams and driven deployment, monitoring, and orchestration improvements at organizations including Twitch, HackerOne, Fireside, and now Upwind Security. Known for pragmatic automation and on-call ownership, he blends hands-on engineering with internal consulting to spec and deliver systems that meet SLAs and product needs. Based in Vermont, he brings a full-stack systems background—dating back to provisioning and PXE-era automation in Alaska—that informs practical, maintainable solutions across cloud and edge environments.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Alaska Anchorage