James Osborne
System Administrator
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Osborne is a Linux-focused system administrator and self-hoster based in Pittsburgh with four years of professional experience running and supporting blockchain validator infrastructure across Cosmos, Aptos, Near, Algorand, Sui, and Ethereum. At Lavender.Five he designs, deploys, and monitors remote servers, validators, and public RPC/API endpoints using tools like Ansible, Docker, Prometheus/Grafana, Horcrux, Hermes, and Rly, blending operational reliability with Web3 research. He also runs a personal imprint for music publishing and server experiments, bringing a creative, full-stack systems perspective that spans Arch/Ubuntu/FreeBSD environments, Caddy/Apache web stacks, and audio production toolchains. Comfortable in both command-line ops and community-facing technical support, James pairs a background in SEO/PR and multilingual study with hands-on crypto-node engineering. An interesting detail: beyond validator ops he actively runs node infrastructure visible on GitHub as a multi-node operator for Lavender.Five and Yieldmos, reflecting a practice-driven approach to decentralization and uptime.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Program Completion, Japanese Language and Culture, Program Completion, Japanese Language and Culture at 大阪樟蔭女子大学 / Osaka Shoin Women's UniversityHigh School Diploma, Computer Networking, Drama, High School Diploma, Computer Networking, Drama at GlenOak High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History at Kent State UniversityMaster's degree, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies - Focus on Indigenous politics of Japan, Not completed, Master's degree, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies - Focus on Indigenous politics of Japan, Not completed at University of Pittsburgh
Japanese, English
Github Skills (67)
cosmos10
validators10
chain9
genesis9
tendermint9
blockchain9
nft9
configurations9
firefox8
notification8
cryptocurrency8
ethereum8
plug8
chrome8
chrome-extension8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
reversesigh/chain-registry
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 316 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 9 months
reversesigh/cosmos_node-initial_setup
Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:14 releases, 205 commits, 200 pushes in 8 months
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