James FitzGibbon
Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorJames FitzGibbon is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with 21 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure, currently at Google in Seattle. He has strong hands-on expertise in automation, CI/CD, and cloud-native deployments from roles at Nordstrom—where he built an internal Chef CI pipeline and automated Chef services on AWS—and earlier systems engineering positions at Nokia and Comwave. James blends deep Unix and networking knowledge with pragmatic software practices, using tools like Chef, SparkleFormation, Redis, and Sidekiq to deliver production-grade systems. He prefers focused, professional interactions and values clarity and intent in communications, which is reflected in how he manages outreach and connections. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex operational needs into repeatable, testable automation and highly available services.
22 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (141)
go10
world-of-warcraft10
recipe10
passwords10
addon10
trigger9
btrfs9
test-kitchen9
automation9
chef-client9
command-line-tool9
discord9
docker9
devops9
scripting9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jf647/WoW-UI-Config
Jun 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:310 commits, 2 comments, 2 issues in 1 year 3 months
jf647/chef-gen-flavors
May 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 months
gemsruby-gemsruby
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