James Buchanan
Summary
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RockstarJames Buchanan is a Principal Solutions Architect with two decades of hands-on development, architecture and managerial experience, currently leading solutions at New Relic after a string of senior cloud and architecture roles at Tesco. He specialises in cloud-native infrastructure, IaC and CI/CD—designing multi-region, disaster-resilient AWS/Azure platforms and pragmatic GraphQL APIs that powered a £4bn grocery web and mobile ecosystem. Known for blending deep technical problem-solving with team leadership, he moves between hands-on delivery and strategic operational improvements, from Terraform and container orchestration to APM-driven incident analysis. His career shows a steady progression from web developer to operations director and architect, giving him rare visibility across engineering, product and business operations. Based in England, he enjoys learning and applying new technologies and is valued for being pragmatic, well organized and fun to work with. An understated strength is his history of operational roles (from bar and warehouse management to agency operations), which informs his practical, process-minded approach to large-scale systems and teams.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (65)
query-language10
backlog10
asciidoc10
newrelic10
nrql10
heatmap9
documentation9
relic8
terraform8
react8
terraform-provider8
monitoring7
apigee7
developer-tools7
ingest6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic-experimental/nr1-wall-status-board
Nov 2022 - Jan 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
jsbnr/nr-synthetics-boilerplate
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Some examples on calling multiple API's from New Relic API Synthetics scripts
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
apicallingapi-ssyntheticsrelic
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