James Arruda
Senior Platform Engineer
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Arruda is a Senior Platform Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and automating Windows-centric infrastructure and DevOps tooling. A Powershell evangelist and experienced script author, he has presented at consecutive PowerShell Summit conferences and consistently translates automation needs into reusable tools. His career spans enterprise roles at Point32Health, FM Global, Starburst, and Lacework, where he blended platform engineering, server administration, and cloud-era DevOps practices. With a physics degree and a background as a former physics teacher, he brings analytical rigor and an educator’s clarity to complex technical problems. Based in Providence, RI, James is comfortable leading cross-functional projects like backup and DR strategy implementations and has a track record of moving organizations from manual operations to automated, auditable systems. He’s equally at home optimizing Active Directory and VMware estates as he is building the scripts and processes that make those environments scalable and reliable.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Phsyics, Bachelor's of Science, Phsyics at UMass Dartmouth
Github Skills (1)
web-components4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
JamesRoitberg/unifloor-2012
Feb 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:41 commits in 3 months
ampproject/amphtml
May 2019 - May 2019
The AMP web component framework.
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
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