James Hale
Director at Salesforce
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJames Hale is a security engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing secure, highly available systems across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Currently a Director at Salesforce, he has progressed through hands-on roles from systems engineering to senior security architect and leadership, blending DevOps discipline with Agile delivery. He specializes in architecting scalable security controls and resilient infrastructure while coaching teams to operationalize security at scale. Based in Alexandria, VA, James brings a practical bias for implementation—often bridging product, platform, and compliance needs—and a track record of evolving security posture within large, fast-moving organizations.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English
Stackoverflow
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881reached
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Github Skills (76)
end-to-end-encryption10
pgp10
yubikey10
authentication10
terraform10
wireguard10
terraform-module10
vpn10
vpn-client10
fido10
boto10
keybase10
okta-api10
aws-cli10
ssh-tunnel10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
okta-awscli/okta-awscli
Nov 2017 - Mar 2022
Provides Okta authentication for awscli
Contributions:25 releases, 16 reviews, 171 commits in 4 years 4 months
authenticationaws-clioktaokta-apiaws
jmhale/cookiecutter-terraform-module
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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