James Mccallum
Cooltrax - DevOps Consultant at James McCallum Consulting
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mccallum is a DevOps and cloud platform consultant with 11 years of experience helping product teams ship faster by fixing automation, architecture, technical debt, and organizational bottlenecks. He combines hands-on software development (TypeScript, Java, C#) with multi-cloud architecture expertise across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and a track record of interim CTO and advisory engagements. Working primarily through his consultancy, he’s delivered platform, security, and reliability improvements for clients from banks to SaaS startups, often stepping into short, high-impact contracts. James’s approach is customer-centric—shaping infrastructure and processes so developers spend more time building and less time firefighting. Based in Queensland, Australia, he pairs practical cloud engineering with product-minded priorities and a founder’s sensibility for shipping outcomes. An understated strength: he routinely surfaces non-obvious organizational causes of delivery delays, not just technical fixes.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Web Development (ASP.net), Web Development, Certificate in Web Development (ASP.net), Web Development at Ames IT AcademyDiploma in Network Engineering, Information Technology, Diploma in Network Engineering, Information Technology at Computer Power Institute
Github Skills (200)
testing10
ubuntu10
vim10
automation10
torrent10
buster10
vagrant10
redhat10
mean-stack10
python10
terraform10
ansible-role10
ssh10
movie10
centos10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
jamesla/ql-docker
Aug 2020 - May 2022
A quake live docker server with minqlx plugins
Contributions:5 releases, 17 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 9 months
docker-composedockerquake
jamesla/ansible-role-tmux
Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
Ansible role to install tmux from source
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 11 months
ansibletmuxroleansible-role
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