James Raulinaitis
Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure Production SRE at Kentik
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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SeniorJames Raulinaitis is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in large-scale cloud platform and infrastructure SRE, currently leading Infrastructure Production at Kentik. With over 20 years across network, data center, and cloud domains, he blends deep hands-on expertise (CCIE #18071 emeritus, OpenStack, VMware) with public cloud mastery across AWS, Azure, and GCP. He has a proven record of architecting repeatable, standards-driven solutions—evident from building "network infrastructure stamps" and transitional network services at Microsoft and scaling cloud platforms at Rakuten. A pragmatic DevOps advocate, he leverages Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub workflows to automate and stabilize production at scale. Known for connecting with teams to drive high performance under tight deadlines and budgets, he thrives in fast-changing environments while challenging the status quo. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs deep networking pedigree with modern cloud-native operations to bridge legacy infrastructure and transformative cloud initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
nms10
backup9
network9
database6
python3
network-automation3
networking3
puppet2
dhcp1
dns1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jamesraul/google_pyquick
Aug 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
pythongoogle-developersedu
jamesraul/jamesraul.github.io
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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