Summary
James Ruiz is a cloud engineer with eight years of experience and a 5+ year focus on AWS, IaC, and CI/CD who builds serverless, scalable infrastructures and reusable developer-facing tooling. He has driven infrastructure automation at companies from games to fintech, authoring TypeScript AWS CDK constructs and custom GitHub Actions that hand deployments off to AWS CodePipeline. Known for cutting pipeline build times through containerization and pragmatic automation, he also reduced AWS costs via right-sizing and reserved instances. A collaborative leader and former team lead/PM, he combines hands-on engineering with people skills honed teaching and managing cohorts at Lambda School. Based in Cerritos, CA, he often blends full-stack sensibilities into cloud work—bringing experience with React, Amplify, and container orchestration to architect end-to-end delivery systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development & Computer Science, Full Stack Web Development & Computer Science at BloomTech
Bachelor of Science - BS Criminal Justice, Bachelor of Science - BS Criminal Justice at San Diego State University