James Rawlings
Principal Software Engineer at Chainguard
Penarth, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJames Rawlings is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience focused on securing software supply chains and maintaining Wolfi OS at Chainguard. He blends deep DevOps and backend expertise with a history of shaping CI/CD and cloud-native tooling—contributions include meaningful work on Fabric8, Jenkins X and the Kubernetes-focused Kuberhealthy project. His background spans senior engineering and technical lead roles at CloudBees, Red Hat and VMware Tanzu, giving him strong credibility in distributed systems, build pipelines and Kubernetes operators. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed critical bugs, improved deployment pipelines and resolved tricky dependency issues across notable projects. Based in Penarth, Wales, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset that pairs production-focused reliability with supply-chain security insights not obvious from job titles alone.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (39)
dependency-management10
monitoring10
kubernetes10
google-cloud-platform10
docker10
jenkins-x10
dockers10
java10
cicd10
gcp10
javas10
automation10
go10
openshift10
helm10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
fabric8io/fabric8-pipeline-library
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Fabric8 Pipeline for Jenkins
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:295 commits, 254 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing and refining the CI/CD pipeline for the Fabric8 Pipeline library. Their contributions involved modifying build configurations, integrating Docker client commands, updating image building processes to use S2I, and addressing dependency management issues. They also worked on improving deployment processes and integrating features for deploying snapshot images and integrating with external OpenShift clusters. This work involved a shift from using the kubernetes-pipeline-plugin to using the docker client binary.
jenkinspipelinefabric8devopsfabric8-pipeline
chainguard-dev/melange
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
build APKs from source code
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 9 commits, 54 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to the `melange` project by annotating Go structs for marshaling purposes, improving code maintainability. They addressed issues related to dependency management, specifically updating the `apko` dependency and resolving a dependency conflict. The user also fixed an issue with sourceforge redirects in the renovate functionality and addressed a floating-point number issue. Finally, they bumped the apko dependency to a newer version.
apks
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