Summary
James Force is a Senior Principal Consultant at Red Hat with six years of consultancy experience delivering large-scale, mission-critical Linux and Kubernetes platforms for enterprise customers. He combines deep hands-on expertise in RHEL, OpenShift, Istio, Ceph/ODF, Ansible and GitOps with a pragmatic Unix-philosophy approach to building reliable, observable infrastructure. A self-starter and versatile technologist, James has designed managed SaaS platforms and led complex migrations and HA/DR database projects across banking, finance and telco environments. He champions open source and agile culture, balancing delivery leadership with day-to-day engineering to ensure systems are maintainable and production-ready. Unusually for a senior consultant, he pairs broad systems fundamentals with detailed operational experience—from storage and Solaris zones to modern cloud-native stacks—making him effective across the full lifecycle of platform delivery.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing at Sheffield Hallam University
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at University of Bath
Korean, English