James Condron
Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Dexory
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Condron is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer and seasoned technology leader with 13 years building resilient distributed systems, currently focusing on SRE at Dexory while running a boutique consultancy, Zero Internet. He combines hands-on platform engineering—containerisation, Kubernetes, Terraform—and reliability playbooks with people leadership across global teams, having led SRE and developer-experience initiatives at Kaluza, Culture Trip and others. An active open-source contributor, he has improved release tooling in the widely-used goreleaser project, tightening packaging reliability and file-globbing behavior. Pragmatic about vendor relationships and operational cost, he pairs architectural oversight with coaching and documentation to make systems supportable by design. Notably, he prefers LinkedIn for career networking only, reflecting a clear boundary between personal profile use and recruitment or procurement messages.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Incomplete) Secure and Forensic Computing, BA (Incomplete) Secure and Forensic Computing at The University of Huddersfield
English, Korean
Github Skills (7)
golang10
release-management10
build-tools10
build-system10
go10
release-automation10
package9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
goreleaser/goreleaser
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Release engineering, simplified
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the configuration and build process of the `goreleaser` project. Their work included allowing for variations in file naming conventions (e.g., "LICENCE" instead of "LICENSE") when searching for files. They also implemented features related to globbing file patterns and reordered deferred closers in the compression pipeline, enhancing the reliability of the release packaging process.
golangrpmsnapcraftapkdocker
vinyl-linux/vin-packages-stable
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
Stable vin package manifests; the start point for every good vinyl installation
Contributions:2 PRs, 112 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 1 month
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