James Denton
Principal Architect at Rackspace Technology
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Denton is a Principal Architect with 11 years focused on OpenStack, cloud networking, and virtualization, currently leading architecture at Rackspace from San Antonio. He has driven NFV and private cloud platforms that replaced physical appliances with virtual equivalents (Cisco ASAv, F5, NetScaler) and implemented performance optimizations like DPDK, FD.io VPP, and SR-IOV. A Cisco and F5 certified security professional, he’s led cross-functional teams supporting large financial and healthcare customers and overseen greenfield datacenter deployments. James is an active OpenStack-Ansible contributor who improved deployment and testing workflows—streamlining AIO setups, OVN provider networks, and upgrade paths for neutron plugins. He combines hands-on network engineering roots (firewalls, load balancers, LAMP) with strategic vendor and upstream open-source engagement to turn complex requirements into automated, cost-efficient solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BBA Business Administration Computer Info Systems, BBA Business Administration Computer Info Systems at Texas State UniversityUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
English
Github Skills (14)
ansible-galaxy10
openstack10
devops10
ansible10
networking9
yaml9
infrastructure-as-code8
python8
cicd7
linux7
testing6
dockers5
bash5
docker5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-ansible
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Ansible playbooks for deploying OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the OpenStack Ansible deployment and testing infrastructure. Their contributions included modifying and adding to the Ansible playbooks to facilitate the deployment of various OpenStack services, with specific changes for the ironic_neutron_agent and the setup of AIO (All-in-One) environments for testing. Furthermore, the user updated configuration files and scripts to incorporate OVN-style provider networks, and refined the upgrade process to correctly define the Neutron plugin. These changes streamlined testing and deployment workflows.
ansibleopenstack
busterswt/asa
Jan 2016 - Apr 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 4 months
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