James Light
Senior Software Engineer at KORIO
New York, United States
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Top SchoolJames Light is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of deep experience in site reliability, platform engineering, DevOps/DevSecOps, and developer experience, currently shaping infrastructure and tooling at KORIO in New York. He specializes in maintainability, usability, and security of cloud and on-prem platforms, with a track record of large-scale vulnerability remediation, container and IaC migrations, and developer self-service tooling. James has repeatedly led short-term transformation engagements—kickstarting IaC, migrating SDLCs to containers, and shifting departmental direction—while also shipping Go-based CLIs and automation that cut operational tasks from hours to minutes. Comfortable across AWS, Proxmox, Nomad, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and CI systems, he blends hands-on engineering with advisory leadership for technical strategy and hiring. A CLI and colored-text enthusiast, he brings a pragmatic focus on developer ergonomics and often solves problems by simplifying tooling and workflows rather than adding layers of complexity.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Of Science Computer Science, Bachelor's Of Science Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (44)
container10
docker10
boto10
ecosystem10
testing10
moby10
graph10
terraform10
infrastructure10
go10
aws10
assemble10
golang10
terraform-cloud9
hashicorp9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jl2501/thewired
Mar 2020 - Sep 2024
namespace library for cush and kaleidoscope
Contributions:49 PRs, 87 pushes, 58 branches in 4 years 6 months
kaleidoscopenamespace
jl2501/cush
Mar 2020 - Dec 2024
IPython-based experimental workflow
Contributions:8 PRs, 45 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
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