Summary
James Corteciano is a Cloud Engineer based in Greater Melbourne with 10 years’ experience bridging networking, systems administration and cloud-native platform engineering. He has built and operated AWS infrastructure at scale—spanning VPCs, Direct Connect, BGP, monitoring stacks and CI/CD—while advancing containerization, Kubernetes, GitOps and Policy-as-Code with Open Policy Agent. James transitioned through acquisition-driven roles (Contino → Cognizant Servian) and now shapes platform reliability and security at Open LMS, bringing practical enterprise architecture and guardrails experience. Equally comfortable with low-level networking and higher-level platform automation, he pairs Linux and Ansible chops with Prometheus/Grafana observability to deliver auditable, secure deployments. Notably, his career shows a steady progression from monitoring/operator roles to platform-focused engineering, reflecting deep operational empathy and a pragmatic, security-minded approach.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at AMA University