James Sandlin
Staff Security Assurance Engineer at GitLab
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJames Sandlin is a Staff Security Assurance Engineer at GitLab with 11 years of infrastructure and DevOps experience focused on Infrastructure as Code, cloud automation, and secure, auditable deployments. He has a deep track record designing CI/CD and build ecosystems for large enterprises—scaling eBay’s build platform from tens to hundreds of nodes and leading migrations to containerized, automated toolchains. As a solutions architect he specialized in regulated environments, ensuring traceability, repeatability, and reportability across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes while integrating auth systems like SAML and JWT. James pairs hands-on automation (CloudFormation, Ansible, Python/Boto) with security-first operations and has repeatedly turned manual processes into reproducible, auditable pipelines. He brings uncommon breadth from early web and build tooling to modern cloud-native architectures, and he’s comfortable leading both teams and the underlying engineering work. Based in Houston, he combines a CS degree with a psychology background, which informs his pragmatic approach to tooling, process, and team dynamics.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Illinois State UniversityB.A. Psychology, B.A. Psychology at University of Louisiana Monroe
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Github Skills (78)
python10
automation10
ssh10
ansible10
django-rest-framework10
network-configuration9
django9
rest9
nagios9
puppet8
music8
ansible-automation-platform8
rest-api8
elasticsearch8
redhat8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
in-betweener/grafanalib
Aug 2018 - Jan 2021
Python library for building Grafana dashboards
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
python-librarypythongrafana-dashboardsdashboardsgrafana
greenscar/ansible
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 42 pushes, 6 branches in 9 days
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