James Paterni
Site Reliability Engineer at Blueleaf.com
Shepherd, Michigan, United States
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RockstarJames Paterni is a Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and migrating production infrastructure from legacy physical servers to cloud-native, autoscaling environments. Based in Shepherd, Michigan, he specializes in automation (Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions), Linux administration, Rails/PostgreSQL stack operations, and data retention/migration strategies. He runs 24/7 operational responsibilities—designing architectures, responding to incidents, and creating custom tooling to simplify deployments and monitoring. His background includes leading migration teams and training customers at Engine Yard and developing distributed high-availability systems and AnyCast DNS at Liquid Web. Known for pairing pragmatic engineering with cost-conscious AWS account management, he routinely balances automation, reliability, and fiscal discipline. Colleagues rely on him for low-downtime migrations, complex legacy lifts, and durable operational runbooks that keep services resilient.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (25)
cookbook10
recipe10
cloud-platform10
mruby10
ruby-on-rails6
sidekiq6
arduino-library3
yard3
blocking2
esp82662
non-blocking2
wifi2
arduino2
esp322
ruby-client2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jamez01/tp_link
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:49 commits, 9 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 1 month
jamez01/ecsecute
Sep 2023 - Dec 2024
Helper to execute commands on ECS containers.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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