James Cockbain
Senior Software Engineer at Thought Machine
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Cockbain is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with seven years’ experience building platform and developer tooling for cloud-native systems. He specialises in distributed systems and Kubernetes across GCP, AWS and Azure, with strong hands-on skills in Go, Python and JavaScript. At Thought Machine he helped scale an internal provisioning platform to support ~100 clusters and led work to productionise Kubernetes operators and cloud cost governance tooling. Earlier roles at IBM show a track record shipping developer-facing tools (Eclipse Codewind, a Go CLI and React performance visualisations) and even a granted patent from an internship project. James excels in collaborative environments, focusing on platforms that multiply other engineers’ productivity while balancing pragmatic product and cost considerations.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The Cottesloe SchoolMaster's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at Durham University
English, French
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Github Skills (92)
eclipse10
github-api10
api9
swift9
docker9
container9
java9
openshift9
nodejs9
vscode9
golang8
kubernetes8
github-api-v38
eclipse-ide8
netlify8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jcockbain/python-algorithms
Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
Data structures, and algorithms, in Python.
Contributions:12 PRs, 80 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 2 months
pythonalgorithms-and-data-structurespython3data-structures
jcockbain/daily-coding-problem
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Solutions to daily coding problems, released by https://www.dailycodingproblem.com/.
Contributions:13 PRs, 49 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 10 months
pythonleetcodeproblemsreleaseddaily-coding
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