James Fairbairn
Kirkcaldy, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Fairbairn is a Senior DevOps Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems across finance, defense and broadcast media. He combines deep Java and Spring expertise with practical mastery of Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and CI/CD to build resilient microservice architectures and automated delivery pipelines. His career spans senior engineering and leadership roles—from founding a tech company to leading ML Ops and AWS platform initiatives—demonstrating both entrepreneurial drive and delivery-focused consultancy. Notable strengths include introducing rigorous testing practices (PIT mutation testing, Cucumber BDD) and templated developer tooling to accelerate safe service delivery. Based in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, he often bridges development and platform teams to turn complex integrations into repeatable infrastructure-as-code. He’s equally comfortable prototyping new cloud patterns as he is stabilising large legacy systems for production.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PgD Advanced Computer Systems Design, PgD Advanced Computer Systems Design at University of the West of ScotlandBsc Computer Science, Bsc Computer Science at University of Glasgow
Github Skills (13)
sonarqube8
aws8
terraform7
docker-image7
docker7
terraform-provider6
rancher5
kubernetes5
orchestration4
terraform-module4
container3
container-management3
cattle1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SleepingTalent/Absence-Tracker
May 2015 - Jun 2024
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
BabcockEMTDevelopment/configuration-server
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:154 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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