James Elsdon
Staff Software Engineer at Telstra
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Elsdon is a Staff Software Engineer in the Greater Melbourne Area with 10+ years solving hard problems across Unix/Linux, networking and Telco systems. He has progressed through technical and senior engineering roles at Telstra after a long-term consultancy helping enterprise telco projects with resilient Unix and VoIP solutions. Comfortable working independently or in small teams, he focuses on maintainable, well-architected outcomes, bringing hands-on scripting, debugging and solution-architecture expertise. His background blends deep open-source and systems experience with practical DevOps and service-availability work delivered under operational pressure. Beyond software, he holds a Permaculture Design Certificate, reflecting a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to engineering and infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Permaculture Design Certificate, Permaculture Design Certificate at Permaculture Research InstituteBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Science at RMIT University
Github Skills (32)
lvgl10
controller9
cnc9
logging9
fluentd9
stream-processing8
opentelemetry8
fluent-bit8
esp328
promql7
firmware7
windows7
linux7
prometheus7
rule6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jelsdon/raterep
Dec 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
jelsdon/grbl-cncsys-config
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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