James Strain
Senior Staff Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Strain is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Melbourne with a decade of experience building scalable systems across DevOps, cloud, and AI-focused infrastructure. He has progressed from hands-on DevOps and consulting roles to senior engineering leadership at Zendesk, Groq, and now NVIDIA, delivering reliability and automation at scale. His background combines pragmatic agile transformation and test automation early in his career with recent work on high-performance compute and ML infrastructure. Comfortable bridging engineering and operations, he’s known for reducing cycle time through tooling and process improvements and for adapting enterprise practices to cutting-edge hardware teams. An alumni of Monash University, he also brings an unusual mix of sports coaching certification, reflecting a practical coaching approach to mentoring engineers.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Victorian Certificate of Education, Victorian Certificate of Education at St Josephs College NewtownCertificate III - Sports Coaching Martial Arts Specialisation, Certificate III - Sports Coaching Martial Arts Specialisation at Australian College of Sports DevelopmentBachelor of business information systems Information Technology, Bachelor of business information systems Information Technology at Monash University
Github Skills (114)
ecosystem10
golang10
container10
producer10
confluent10
docker10
confluent-cloud10
reactive-kafka9
librdkafka9
moby9
assemble9
connect9
go9
react-native-webview8
react8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Strainy/react-native-http-server
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
A simple http server implementation fo react native (Android)
Contributions:4 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
reactreact-native-androidreact-nativesimple-http-serverandroid
Strainy/aws_exam_notes
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Simple Hugo site to store and access my AWS exam notes
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
hugo-sitenoteshugoaws
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