James Cunningham
Senior DevOps Engineer - LaserDigital at Nomura
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Cunningham is a senior DevOps and platform engineer with 13 years' experience building secure, scalable infrastructure and developer experiences across fintech and cyber security. He has led platform teams at Risk Ledger, Monolith, Cuvva and Nomura/LaserDigital, shaping architecture, security, compliance and observability for high-risk, high-scale products. A hands-on engineer with a decade of commercial Go experience and five years with Kubernetes, he pairs deep technical delivery with hiring, mentoring and technical sales involvement. He co-founded startups, was the second-youngest founder in Y Combinator’s Summer 2012 batch, and has repeatedly taken early-stage products to production-ready platforms. Currently studying for CompTIA Security+ and active in penetration testing and bug-bounty orchestration, he brings a pragmatic security-first mindset to platform design.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorHigher National Diploma, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Higher National Diploma, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Dundee and Angus College
English, German
Github Skills (82)
linux10
combinator10
json-rpc10
ansible9
yaml9
api9
cli9
wireguard9
python9
ssh9
networking9
babel-plugin9
toml9
geolocation8
golang8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jamescun/jamescun
Jul 2020 - Mar 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 8 months
jamescun/wg-api
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
WG-API is a JSON-RPC Server for WireGuard
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 8 months
json-rpcwireguardnetworkinglinuxapi
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