James Morelli
Engineering Manager at GameChanger
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Morelli is an Engineering Manager and hands-on Site Reliability leader with 13 years of experience building resilient, observable cloud infrastructure and empowering global DevOps teams. He combines deep IaC and automation expertise—over a decade working with Terraform, Nomad, Mesos, GitLab CI/CD and AWS—with practical incident response design that supports coordinated 24/7 operations. James has led SRE/TechOps and IT teams across startups and enterprise environments, driving standardization of deployment practices and measurable reductions in MTTR. He contributes to open-source tooling for production deployments (notably improvements to marathon-lb’s blue/green deployment scripts) and brings a pragmatic focus on translating technical observability into business-relevant SLAs. Based in Philadelphia, he’s known for blending engineering mentorship with running reliable platforms that scale across cloud and on-prem clubhouses alike. A self-described “lagomorphic hacker,” he pairs a curiosity-driven hacker mindset with disciplined operational rigor.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
devops10
python10
marathon10
testing9
haproxy9
service-discovery8
mesos8
dcos8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mesosphere/marathon-lb
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Marathon-lb is a service discovery & load balancing tool for DC/OS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 15 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `bluegreen_deploy.py` script, refactoring the code, adding new functions, and improving overall functionality related to blue/green deployments for the `marathon-lb` service. These changes included renaming functions, implementing more robust timeout handling, and optimizing the logic for scaling applications. The user also made several adjustments and bug fixes to address issues in scaling instances and draining tasks during deployments. Furthermore, the user added tests to the deployment scripts.
golangload-balancingdiscoveryservice-discoverymonitoring
JamesAwesome/kanbantool_ticket_dash
May 2017 - Jan 2019
A dashboard to allow people to view & submit shield tickets to/from Kanbantool
Contributions:56 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 8 months
shieldkanbantoolsubmitdashboard
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