James Leone
Azure Platform Director
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Leone is an Azure-focused platform leader with 8+ years of cloud and DevSecOps experience and a 25+ year career delivering software across medical devices, consumer media, and enterprise platforms. As Azure Platform Director at IBM and previously leading cloud, IoT, and DevSecOps groups at Abbott and St. Jude Medical, he blends technical execution with business strategy to scale secure, regulated systems using Azure PaaS and hybrid-cloud patterns. He has a track record of reducing time-to-market and costs through agile/DevSecOps transformation, vendor negotiations, and platform harmonization that produced multi-million dollar savings. An active DevOps Ambassador, he helps upskill organizations on integrating security into development, and he brings uncommon depth in both embedded device stacks and large-scale cloud services. Based in Los Angeles with a USC computer science background, James is equally comfortable mentoring teams as he is architecting systems that meet strict regulatory and operational constraints.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Southern California
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (63)
terraform10
terraform-provider10
azure-resource-manager10
caf10
azure10
coinbase9
azure-cli9
nexus9
coinbase-api9
landing-zone9
management9
gdax-api9
resource-manager9
ansible-role8
terraform-module8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jleonelion/fundamentals-of-terraform
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
jleonelion/terraform-azurerm-caf
Jan 2021 - Jul 2023
Base terraform module for the landing zones on Terraform part of Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
Contributions:22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
microsoft-cloudadoptioncloud-adoptioncloud-adoption-frameworkzones
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