James Brundage
Founder & Lead Developer at Start-Automating
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Brundage is a founder and lead developer with 15 years of experience delivering automation-first, full-stack solutions with a specialty in PowerShell and CI/CD. He runs Start-Automating from Seattle, driving high business impact by architecting extensible, test-verified tooling and automations that save time and money. A former SDET at Microsoft and a Microsoft MVP in Azure/PowerShell, he contributes to notable Azure open-source projects—improving the arm-ttk validation toolkit and PowerShell test frameworks in the azure-quickstart-templates repo. James combines deep scripting fluency (including SVG generation and Git automation) with practical engineering practices like JEA and containerization to keep systems secure and maintainable. He’s known for reverse-engineering tricky problems, translating across languages, and relentlessly iterating until solutions scale for real-world teams.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
None, Computer Science, None, Computer Science at Kent State University
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Github Skills (21)
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azure-resource-manager10
azure-arm-templates10
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test-automation10
dll9
testing9
bicep9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/arm-ttk
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
Azure Resource Manager Template Toolkit
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 324 commits, 158 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `azure/arm-ttk` repository, which involves the Azure Resource Manager Template Toolkit, by fixing bugs in the toolkit's test cases and adding improvements. Their work involved debugging the discovery process of text boxes in the CreateUIDefinition, improving and clarifying error messages, and modifying tests related to resource ID. They were also responsible for implementing checks for parameter and variable references and adding additional validation to deployment templates.
azure-resource-managertemplate-toolkit
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:Test Automation Engineer / DevOps Engineer
Test Automation Engineer / DevOps EngineerContributions:62 commits, 20 PRs, 15 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:James's contributions primarily focused on implementing and refining testing frameworks within the Azure Quickstart Templates repository. They introduced and updated PowerShell-based template validation, including the addition of test cases and associated validation files. Their work also included refactoring and merging updates to ensure the tests were current with the main branch, as well as updates for improved formatting.
azuretemplatesarmbicepbicep-templates
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