James Griffin
Principal AI Engineer AI Innovation Lab
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Griffin is an Applied AI Engineer with nine years’ experience building cloud-native and AI-driven systems, now leading incubator projects at the Tony Blair Institute after several engineering and customer-facing roles at Microsoft. He has deep hands-on expertise in Azure, MLOps, DevOps and secure infrastructure—evidenced by contributions to projects like microsoft/AzureTRE where he implemented Terraform automation, Docker Hub proxies and other foundational tooling for Trusted Research Environments. A former startup founder and CTO, he blends product-minded full‑stack engineering with operational rigor to move experimental AI prototypes into secure, production-ready solutions. Comfortable partnering with strategic gov and healthcare customers, he pragmatically balances innovation, compliance and engineering excellence. Outside work he’s a pianist and avid board-game and sci‑fi fan, reflecting a creative and systems-oriented mindset that shows up in both design and debugging.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature (British and Commonwealth), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature (British and Commonwealth) at University of SurreyThe Stourport High School and VIth Form Centre
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Github Skills (21)
docker10
scripting10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
nexus10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
terraform10
terraformer10
script10
sh10
azure10
shell10
apidoc8
api8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/AzureTRE
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
An accelerator to help organizations build Trusted Research Environments on Azure.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:154 reviews, 47 commits, 85 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on configuring and improving the infrastructure for the project. Their contributions included setting up Terraform scripts for installing and configuring Terraform, which involved scripting and cloud resource management. Furthermore, they worked on configuring Docker Hub proxy, managing network settings, and implementing various configuration updates for Nexus and other services.
azure
SAFEHR-data/FlowEHR
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
FlowEHR is a safe, secure & cloud-native development & deployment platform for digital healthcare research & innovation.
Contributions:192 reviews, 56 commits, 85 PRs in 2 months
cloud-native
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