James Carignan
Senior Staff Developer at Benevity
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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SeniorJames Carignan is a strategic technology leader and co-founder with 14 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, driving DevOps transformation, and aligning engineering execution with business outcomes. Based in Calgary, he combines hands-on expertise in AWS and Azure infrastructure, Pulumi IaC, IAM/SSO, and security-first practices to deliver scalable, cost-effective platforms that support revenue growth and compliance. He has led platform teams, operated legacy and ML platforms, and contributed across stacks—from Angular and C# to Python ML daemons—while championing continuous improvement through automation and developer tooling. James excels as a player-coach, mentoring engineers and influencing executive decisions on technology investments and governance. His background includes spinning up cloud operations at startups and consulting on automation and instrumentation for scientific and healthcare projects, revealing a practical knack for translating domain needs into reliable systems. He’s particularly skilled at balancing reliability, cost optimization, and security to create measurable business impact.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (15)
aws-cloudformation9
python7
troposphere6
authorization4
mongoengine3
aws3
flask2
semantic-release2
aws-codedeploy2
sqlalchemy2
admin-interface2
django2
monorepo2
hashicorp1
blockchain1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jamescarignan/bookstore
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 1 branch in 1 month
jamescarignan/lambda-precompile-package
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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