James Powis
Senior DevOps Engineer at Zoom
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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SeniorJames Powis is a Senior DevOps Engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure for large-scale service providers, currently driving platform reliability at Zoom. He combines deep systems and networking knowledge—from Windows Server and Red Hat administration to WAN/LAN design, Cisco/Juniper routing, and load balancers—with hands-on automation using Puppet, Packer, Jenkins, Docker and scripting in Bash, Ruby, Perl and PowerShell. His background includes Principal Engineer responsibilities at Charter Communications and a track record at ViaWest designing provisioning automation and operational tooling that reduced onboarding time and lowered operational skill requirements. Comfortable translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, he often focuses on pragmatic automation that measurably improves NOC efficiency and incident response. Based in Littleton, Colorado, James brings both carrier-grade networking experience and practical cloud-era DevOps craftsmanship to platform engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
james-powis/puppet-gitlab
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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james-powis/puppet-hipchat
May 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:67 pushes, 5 branches, 1 tag in 7 months
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