James Cacioppo
Senior Systems Engineer at Obscurity Labs
Leesburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Cacioppo is a senior systems engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing secure, scalable platforms and leading cross-functional teams in regulated and cloud-native environments. He architects GitOps-driven Kubernetes platforms and automates infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines while shifting security left across the development lifecycle. His background spans energy and industrial control systems to SaaS-managed hosting, combining deep operational expertise in on-prem and hybrid cloud with practical cost-saving network redesigns. At Obscurity Labs he blends NLP/ML and semantic-web work with platform security, showing a rare mix of infrastructure, machine learning application design, and regulatory-aware engineering. Based in Leesburg, VA, he’s equally comfortable in low-level systems administration and strategic technical leadership, often translating complex technical constraints into business-aligned, auditable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Westfield HSAssociate of Science (A.S.), Engineering, Cum Laude, Associate of Science (A.S.), Engineering, Cum Laude at Northern Virginia Community College
Github Skills (16)
vmware10
helm10
bitnami10
charts10
kubernetes9
dot7
molecule6
hugo-theme6
testing6
ansible5
python5
hugo5
docker4
podman4
docsy2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JamesCacioppo/JamesCacioppo.github.io
Mar 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:67 PRs, 77 pushes, 67 branches in 4 years
JamesCacioppo/qmk_firmware
Sep 2020 - Mar 2023
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
rp2040nrf52840firmwareavratmel
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