James Olds
DevOps Engineer at Trail of Bits
Saint Augustine, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJames Olds is a DevOps and platform engineer with 11 years of experience building developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure across government, defense contractors, and startups. He designs pragmatic internal platforms—streamlining Kubernetes development with Garden, migrating legacy build systems to Bazel, and shifting self-hosted CI to managed services like AWS CodeBuild and GitHub Actions to reduce operational overhead. Comfortable across GCP and AWS, he authors Terraform/YAML-driven IaC, modernizes monitoring with Grafana/jsonnet, and has shipped secure, browser-based code evaluation tooling used to speed hiring pipelines. His background in the US Navy and large-scale network automation gives him a rare blend of rigorous security, networking, and platform engineering perspective. Based in Saint Augustine, FL, he contributes back to open-source Terraform modules and focuses on developer UX improvements that measurably reduce merge conflicts and mean time to merge.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Development and Security, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Development and Security at University of Maryland University College
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Github Skills (200)
python10
chatgpt10
ai10
information-retrieval10
ai-chat10
nextjs10
llm10
plaid10
vpn-client9
generative-ai9
gemini9
vector-search9
ruby9
security9
encryption9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
oldsj/devops-challenges
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
Project based approach to learning devops skills
Contributions:45 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year
devopsawsterraform
oldsj/edgerouter-automation
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Ubiquity EdgeRouter Automation Framework
Contributions:22 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 7 months
automation-framework
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