Summary
James Pilkington is a Senior Consultant and network automation specialist based in Queensland with 11 years of experience designing high-performance, redundant architectures and securing large-scale web applications. He blends deep networking expertise across Cisco, Juniper and F5 platforms with strong automation skills in Python (Netmiko, Django), Ansible and observability stacks like Splunk and ELK. James has led Agile network automation teams, implemented SSL decryption and inspection pipelines, and optimised TCP performance for environments serving millions of users. He has delivered major projects for whole-of-government clients, including full F5 hardware migrations, SSL Orchestrator deployments and geographically distributed AWS monitoring agents. Comfortable in both cloud (AWS/Azure) and virtualised datacenter platforms, he pairs hands-on escalation support with a pragmatic focus on automation, auditing and security best practices. A former educator and researcher, he brings clear communication and mentoring skills alongside technical depth.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Information Technology (Networking), Information Technology, Diploma of Information Technology (Networking), Information Technology at Southbank Institute of Technology
Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Distinction, Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology, Distinction at Queensland University of Technology
English