James Mcdowell
Platform Engineer
Banbridge, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Mcdowell is a Platform Engineer based in Banbridge, Northern Ireland with eight years of hands-on experience building and securing cloud-native platforms across Azure and AWS. He specialises in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep/ARM), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm, Flux) and CI/CD with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, bringing practical SOC and automation experience from prior roles in Sentinel, Defender for Cloud and Zero-Trust implementations. Comfortable spanning on-prem and cloud environments, he has run networking, virtualization and endpoint management at scale while driving cost and alerting automation. James combines a pragmatic support background with platform engineering discipline, mentoring juniors and improving operational processes along the way. Outside of work he enjoys tackling "weird and wonderful" programming problems and is building skills toward cyber security challenges.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
First Aid, First Aid at ETA NIHND, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, HND, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at South Eastern Regional College
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Github Skills (89)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JamesMatchett/ExCell-Art-Generator
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
A program for making pixel art from a source image in an excel spreadsheet
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 8 PRs in 9 months
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JamesMatchett/James-Helps-Friends-Code
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Where I help people with programming :)
Contributions:53 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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