James Buchanan
Principal Solutions Architect at New Relic, Inc.
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames 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.
6 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Gravesend Grammar SchoolBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Reading
Github Skills (76)
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documentation9
query-language9
developer-tools8
synthetic8
terraform8
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checker7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
newrelic-experimental/nr-bulk-ssl-checker
Jul 2021 - May 2022
A tool for checking SSL certs in bulk utilising New Relic synthetic minions
Contributions:4 releases, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
sslcheckersshminionschecking
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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