James Sanford
Cloud Operations Analyst
Lynnwood, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Sanford is a Cloud Operations Analyst with 14 years of hands-on IT and cloud engineering experience, currently focused on optimizing Azure infrastructure for SaaS deployments. He combines deep platform skills—VMs, batch accounts, AAD, site-to-site VPNs—and CI/CD automation with practical operations work like on-call incident response, ShareFile and ZenDesk administration. His background ranges from hyper-converged virtualization and SCCM-driven imaging to SOC2 controls, disaster recovery planning, and vulnerability scanning, reflecting a strong security and reliability mindset. James pairs infrastructure troubleshooting with client-facing configuration and JSON-based customization, making him equally comfortable scripting changes and guiding deployments. Based in Lynnwood, WA, he brings a pragmatic orientation toward operational resilience and has repeatedly translated legacy environments into modern, monitored cloud services.
14 years of coding experience
PC/LAN Certificate Computer Repair and Networking, PC/LAN Certificate Computer Repair and Networking at Brown CollegeGeneral Studies, General Studies at Chandler/Gilbert Community College
Github Skills (58)
monitoring10
time-series10
prometheus-exporter10
system-monitoring10
prometheus10
remote-write10
graphing10
mysql9
dashboard9
analytics9
visualize9
grafana9
static-site9
database9
data-visualization9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jamessanford/geourl
Jul 2014 - Jul 2017
Parse arbitrary geographic location strings
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years
jamessanford/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:47 pushes, 7 branches in 10 years
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