James Fryman
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Frykin Industries, Incorporated
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJames Fryman is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 16 years of experience modernizing infrastructure and building platform engineering organizations across startups and enterprises. He led the architecture and GA launch of Salesforce Code Builder, authored custom Kubernetes Operators in Go and championed Elixir and Rust tooling adoption to accelerate migrations and improve CI/CD. James scaled platform teams and Kubernetes adoption at Ripple, drove reliability and SRE practices at Auth0 and GitHub, and contributes to notable open-source projects like StackStorm—improving deployment scripts, documentation, and automation packs used by SREs worldwide. He also runs Frykin Industries, applying embedded systems, PCB design and additive manufacturing to automotive and musical-instrument projects, showing a hands-on maker streak beyond cloud infrastructure. Known for blending technical rigor with people-first leadership, he routinely turns complex operational challenges into repeatable systems that let engineers focus on innovation. Based in Nashville, he pairs a background in math and IT with an entrepreneurial bent that surfaces in both product-scale platform work and physical engineering craft.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information Technology, Bachelor of Science Information Technology at University of PhoenixBachelor of Arts Mathematics/Psychology, Bachelor of Arts Mathematics/Psychology at Harding University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (25)
puppeteer10
deploying10
python10
scripting10
configuration-management10
linux10
automation10
script10
github-api10
sh10
automations10
nginx10
shell10
devops10
documentation10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2contrib
Dec 2014 - Jan 2016
MOVED! See StackStorm Exchange
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:382 commits, 133 PRs, 287 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:James contributed features to gather traffic statistics and clone activity data by adding new actions in Python. They also performed style cleanup tasks and integrated with the GitHub API to fetch analytics data. Additionally, the user added basic key/value store and related actions, indicating involvement in data management. Furthermore, the user helped add base packs, and contributed to improve the codebase.
nodejsexchangestackstorm
voxpupuli/puppet-nginx
May 2011 - Jul 2016
Puppet Module to manage NGINX on various UNIXes
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:125 commits, 54 PRs, 55 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the configuration and management of Nginx within a Puppet module. Their work included modifying configuration files, adding support for IPv6, and integrating with the package management system for various Linux distributions. They also added support for SuSE, configured proxy settings, and made improvements to documentation. The user's commits reveal a focus on improving deployment and configuration through automated tools and configurations for Nginx.
nginxpuppetpuppet-modulelinux-puppet-modulebsd-puppet-module
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