James Mckenzie
Emerging Technology Consultant at SUSE
Burnsville, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mckenzie is an Emerging Technology Consultant with over 6 years of focused experience in UNIX and cloud-native platform engineering, currently advising at SUSE from Burnsville, Minnesota. He is Solaris-certified and brings deep, hands-on expertise in Solaris, Red Hat, SuSE, AIX, Ansible automation, Rancher, RKE2, and Kubernetes, having standardized and automated cluster deployments at scale for the USPS. His background combines long-term systems administration leadership—managing teams and 10,000+ heterogeneous servers—with recent roles building Kubernetes platforms and infrastructure automation. Known for pairing Ansible with AWX/Tower to drive repeatable, auditable operations, he excels at translating legacy UNIX environments into modern, containerized workflows. Colleagues rely on him to blend operational rigor with practical platform design, especially when migrating critical services into managed Kubernetes. Often underestimated is his continuity from military-era systems programming to contemporary cloud orchestration, giving him a rare cross-generational perspective on reliable infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (37)
kubernetes10
longhorn10
volumes10
controller10
high-availability10
storage10
distributed-systems10
data-protection10
persistent10
golang10
cloud-native10
testing9
python9
lustre8
initramfs7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
james-munson/RAMCloud
Mar 2020 - Sep 2024
Stateless fork of RAMCloud
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
stateless
james-munson/longhorn
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes
Contributions:101 pushes, 40 branches in 1 year 8 months
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