James Sherwood-jones
Cloud Principal Engineer at AND Digital
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Sherwood-jones is a Cloud Principal Engineer with 11 years’ experience building and operating production-grade cloud platforms and backend services. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he blends hands-on software engineering (Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL) with infrastructure-as-code expertise (AWS, Terraform, Packer) to accelerate digital delivery for clients. He leads technical teams, mentors engineers, and implements CI/CD, container orchestration (ECS/Docker) and serverless patterns while driving observability via ELK, X-Ray and CloudWatch. His background spans fast-moving startups and consultancy engagements, where he’s automated deployments and scaled systems to meet demanding throughput and operational requirements. Notably comfortable across the full stack, he also designs technical assessments and hires engineers, bringing both delivery and people-leadership strengths.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The King's School, GranthamBachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, 1st, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, 1st at University of Leeds
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Github Skills (130)
terraform10
encryption10
secrets10
proxies10
vault10
cli10
go10
access-management10
terraform-provider10
aws10
sdk9
shell9
javascript-client9
raven9
security9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jSherz/terraform-provider-node-lambda-packager
Apr 2023 - May 2026
Bundles your Lambda code and zips it up ready to feed into aws_lambda_function.
Contributions:58 PRs, 74 pushes, 17 branches in 3 years
jSherz/node-grpc-mutual-auth-example
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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