James Cuzella
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Hemisphere Groove Collective
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJames Cuzella is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 16 years building and automating cloud-native infrastructure for startups and enterprises from Boulder, Colorado. He has led migrations to AWS, provisioned Kubernetes clusters, and implemented Terraform, Vault, and CI/CD pipelines to deliver resilient SaaS platforms across roles at Proofpoint, Echo360 and now AppOmni. A pragmatic DevOps engineer and systems architect, he regularly contributes to open-source tooling—improving bash-it completions, Test Kitchen’s Ansible provisioner, and Veewee VM builds—to smooth developer workflows. He combines deep Linux and automation expertise with hands-on Ruby and Bash tooling, and a knack for making ops reproducible and testable. Outside engineering he applies creative, audio-first thinking as a founder and DJ, blending technical rigor with a strong sense for user experience and immersive aural design.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Engineering - Electrical Specialty w/ Area of Special Interest in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Engineering - Electrical Specialty w/ Area of Special Interest in Computer Science at Colorado School of MinesBS Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
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test-kitchen10
docker10
scripting10
configuration-management10
bash10
dockers10
automation10
script10
ansible10
sh10
ansible-galaxy10
macos10
automations10
shell10
mysql9
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
neillturner/kitchen-ansible
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
Ansible Provisioner for Test Kitchen
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the Ansible provisioner for Test Kitchen. Their contributions include refactoring sandbox paths for better code organization, adding support for testing roles, and implementing multiple verbosity levels for Ansible. They also addressed issues with the Ansible installation process on different Ubuntu versions and added flags for `--check` and `--diff` modes, enhancing the tool's functionality and usability.
ansibletest-kitchenkitchenprovisioner
Bash-it/bash-it
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
A community Bash framework.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 16 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:James's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the functionality and utility of the `bash-it` framework. They added a command completion script for Docker, significantly expanding the tool's usability within the bash environment. The user also introduced aliases and modifications to existing scripts, like one for the silver searcher tool (`ag`) with sensible defaults and comments to summarize less arguments, and another to make vars defined in `lib/history.bash` overridable.
bash-promptbash-completionbash-configurationproductivitybash-framework
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