James Sevedge
Senior Software Engineer at Defense Unicorns
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Sevedge is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native API services and systems integrations, recently focused on Kubernetes-based platforms and IaC across Azure, AWS, and GCP. He has driven architecture and performance for F5’s next-gen BIG-IP application services using Node.js and Go, improving developer velocity with low-code mechanisms and automated test coverage above 90%. A pragmatic tech lead and mentor, he has repeatedly cut deployment and setup times from days to minutes through Terraform, CI/CD automation, and custom tooling. Based in Seattle and currently at Defense Unicorns, he blends deep operational background (from hands-on systems work to telemetry and cloud templates) with a focus on repeatable automation and test-driven development. An early-career story that hints at his persistence: he transitioned from a janitorial role into engineering by seeking mentors inside the company, illustrating his practical hustle and long-term focus on outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Network Engineering/Computer Science, Associate's degree Network Engineering/Computer Science at Pierce College at Puyallup
English
Github Skills (85)
azure-functions10
bigip10
f510
arm10
azure-arm-templates10
azure10
deploying10
cloud-init10
azure-resource-manager10
azure-deployment10
arm-templates10
resource-manager10
sdk9
google-cloud-platform9
streaming9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
f5devcentral/f5-sdk-python
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
F5 SDK (Python)
Contributions:1 release, 165 commits, 1 push in 1 year
sdk-pythonpythonsdk
jsevedge/personal-site
May 2020 - Oct 2023
Source for personal site
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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