James Mcleod
Senior Consultant at Daemon
Darwen, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Mcleod is a Senior Consultant and Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of infrastructure and systems engineering experience, now focused on designing and operating Kubernetes platforms on AWS. He blends methodical problem-solving with fast adaptability, delivering end-to-end solutions from Terraform infrastructure to GitOps-driven continuous deployment. His consulting work includes migrating legacy EC2 services to repeatable Kubernetes stacks and implementing global monitoring with Prometheus/Thanos and Grafana for consolidated observability. At Weaveworks he helped telco and enterprise customers adopt GitOps patterns, using tools like tf-controller and Cuelang to templatize cluster and app delivery. Based in Darwen, England, he pairs hands-on engineering with design-led thinking and a track record of completing complex platform projects to a high standard. An understated strength is his ability to translate deep Windows/VMware heritage into pragmatic cloud-native practices that ease operational transitions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
weave9
reporter7
taurus6
uploading4
testing4
jmeter4
locust3
backend3
kubernetes3
performance-testing3
controller2
kotlin2
react2
streaming2
gitops2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mcleodj/eks-flux
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:126 pushes in 5 days
mcleodj/eks-argo
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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