James Huffman
Cloud Engineering Manager at Instacart
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Huffman is a Cloud Engineering Manager with nine years of experience modernizing Kubernetes-based infrastructure and building deployment pipelines and operations automation. He has led large-scale maintenance across 60+ GKE clusters, driving zero-downtime upgrades, resource right-sizing, and monthly cloud spend savings through CUD strategies. James combines hands-on DevOps craft—creating CD pipelines, ARM templates, Jenkins automation, and observability tuning—with people leadership, mentoring engineers and codifying runbooks and incident playbooks. He’s experienced in compliance-driven environments (PCI, SOC) and has acted as technical liaison for complex integrations with Atlassian, GitHub, and Cloudflare. Based in the NYC metro area, he’s known for reducing toil through automation and for introducing pragmatic AI/LLM tooling to improve team productivity. Notably, his background includes revamping legacy enterprise release processes earlier in his career, giving him a strong foundation in both greenfield cloud ops and brownfield modernization.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ben Eielson High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Ball State University
Github Skills (37)
charts10
vmware10
helm10
fax9
volumes9
kubernetes9
bitnami9
kubernetes-helm9
migrate9
helmfile9
backup9
persistent8
velero7
disaster-recovery7
currency6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gorzek/loomwords
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 10 comments in 11 months
gorzek/djmarinara
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
ffmpeg-based streaming video queue manager for Raspberry Pi
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
raspberry-piraspberrystreamingvideo-streamingvideo
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