Summary
James Paige is a Site Reliability Engineer with 12+ years of professional experience and a two-decade history building and shipping indie games and tools. Currently at OANDA, he blends deep Linux and Python expertise with pragmatic DevOps practices—Ansible and Salt-stack—for robust, state-based deployments and resilient production systems. He has a strong track record of modernizing legacy code and systems without disrupting user workflows, informed by long-tenured roles leading IT and development at West Coast Aerospace. Comfortable with complexity, James combines systems-level curiosity and hardware familiarity with time-series expertise for monitoring, ingestion, aggregation, visualization and alerting. As founder and long-time maintainer of the open-source O.H.R.RPG.C.E project, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and sustained community-driven engineering. Based in Toronto, he favors the right tool for the job and learns quickly to fill gaps across stacks and platforms.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Arts (A.A.) at El Camino College