James Polera
Director, SRE at Movable Ink
Trenton, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Polera is a seasoned Director of Site Reliability Engineering with 16 years building and operating high-availability, high-throughput distributed systems across media and government sectors. He blends hands-on expertise in Go, Kubernetes, Postgres performance tuning, and multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) architecture with a proven track record of scaling teams and platforms from SRE to VP-level roles. His career spans critical reliability work at HBO and fuboTV, leadership stints at Movable Ink and GovSky, and a long history of systems and ops ownership dating back to early Unix administration. Equally comfortable as an IC or manager, he’s known for driving observability-first cultures that reduce incidents and accelerate delivery. Based in Trenton, NJ, he brings a pragmatic engineering ethos that surfaces non-obvious wins—like query-level Postgres optimizations that materially cut costs and latency.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, IS, Computer Science, IS at Kean UniversityHigh School, High School at Bayonne High School
Github Skills (22)
splits10
go-framework10
go10
golang10
android7
clojure7
python7
raylib6
game-engine5
monitoring4
opentracing4
profiling4
datadog4
tax3
oauth3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
polera/gonameparts
May 2015 - Aug 2016
Takes a full name and splits it into individual name parts
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 39 commits in 1 year 2 months
takesindividualpartssplitsfull-name
polera/nameparts
Apr 2010 - Nov 2014
Contributions:48 commits in 4 years 8 months
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