James Horton
Senior Solutions Consultant at Horton Consulting
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJames Horton is a Senior Solutions Consultant based in the NYC metro area with a broad IT background spanning networking, databases, systems administration, and cloud-native engineering. He specializes in designing pragmatic integrations between internal systems and cloud/on-prem platforms, with hands-on experience deploying service meshes and microservices on Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, GCP, and AWS. At Layer5 he helps organizations adopt and operate service meshes like Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, and Consul, blending community-driven open-source work with enterprise solution design. His career moves from early systems and network administration through database development to senior solution architecture at HPE, showing a rare full-stack infrastructure POV. James pairs architectural thinking with practical implementation—he codes, engineers networks, and still enjoys walking to clear his head—so he brings both technical depth and grounded operational empathy to customer-facing projects.
2 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, General Studies, Associate's degree, General Studies at San Diego State UniversityBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (58)
opa10
ux-design10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
docker10
visualization10
catalog10
ontology10
configuration-management10
kubernetes-operator10
terraform10
meshery10
design-patterns10
gitops10
consul10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jameshorton2337/jameshorton2337
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
jameshorton2337/service-mesh-patterns
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Templates of service mesh configurations imbued with best practices.
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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