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 (60)
monitoring10
dashboard10
mysql10
time-series10
grafana10
analytics10
prometheus10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
remote-write10
postgresql9
timeseries-database9
business-intelligence9
go9
graphing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jamessanford/rtmp-debug
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 6 months
rtmpdecodepcapwire
jamessanford/assetto-corsa-deltabar
Dec 2014 - Sep 2017
DeltaBar - iRacing-style bar with variable color
Contributions:7 releases, 67 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 8 months
variableiracingassetto-corsaassettocorsa
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