James Arendt
Security Champion And Cloud Orchestration Senior Software Engineer
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Arendt is a seasoned computer scientist and software architect with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering distributed systems, cloud orchestration, and storage solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Currently a Security Champion and Cloud Orchestration Senior Software Engineer at NetApp, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to empower global teams and improve security and reliability in production cloud platforms. His background spans influential roles at VMware, GE Digital, HPE/HP, Microsoft, Dell and IBM, where he built everything from Azure fabric controller components and OpenStack networking services to enterprise backup and converged infrastructure automation. James is equally comfortable in low-level C/C++ system work and higher-level orchestration using Python, Java, Ansible and Salt, reflecting a career-long focus on evolving distributed computing from clusters to clouds. He has a track record of driving cross-functional initiatives—security scanning, threat modeling, SRE and DevOps practice improvements—that yield measurable operational gains. Based in Sammamish, WA, he pairs rigorous academic training (MS, University of Illinois; BS, University of Minnesota) with a pragmatic, systems-first approach to solving large-scale infrastructure challenges.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of MinnesotaMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (8)
networking9
openstack9
openstack-neutron8
load-balancing6
openstack-api6
firewall5
network-service4
dynamic-routing2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron-fwaas
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
Firewall services for OpenStack Neutron. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Contributions:7 commits in 6 months
firewallopenstack-neutron
openstack/neutron-vpnaas
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Virtual private network services for OpenStack Neutron. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Contributions:5 commits in 5 months
network-serviceopenstack-neutron
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