James Brookes
Senior Software Engineer at Confluent
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Brookes is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and automations, currently focused on Kubernetes platform engineering at Confluent. He has a proven track record of turning manual operations into automated, scalable workflows—cutting CSP region enablement from six weeks to two and enabling Confluent to support AWS Hyderabad ahead of AWS MSK. His work spans RPC services, Terraform automation, and reconcilers for managing thousands of Kubernetes clusters, and includes open-source contributions to the widely used hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws. A lifelong learner with a Computer Science degree from the University of East Anglia, James combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for operational efficiency and cross-team enabling tools. Colleagues rely on him for reliably shipping infra changes that unlock faster time-to-market and reduce toil.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, A Levels at East Norfolk Sixth Form CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of East AngliaGCSEs, GCSEs at Flegg High School
Github Skills (9)
terraformer10
go10
aws10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
cloud-infrastructure9
cloud-services9
testing8
cicd8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws
Nov 2022 - Oct 2025
The AWS Provider enables Terraform to manage AWS resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the AWS provider for Terraform, specifically improving tag management for AWS Prometheus Rule Group Namespace resources. Their contributions included adding tagging support, generating test configurations, and incorporating necessary schema changes. They also addressed code quality and maintainability by fixing typos and returning a pointer for an API object within the code base. These changes improved the usability and maintainability of the Terraform AWS provider.
awsterraformterraform-provider
autoreduction/scripts
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Scripts for using/accessing parts of the Autoreduce service, e.g. manual submission/removal, health/sanity checks
Contributions:5 reviews, 41 PRs, 65 pushes in 7 months
healthpartsautoreducesanitymanual
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