James Tait
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Wyrd Dreams Internet Solutions
Derby, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Tait is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with over 25 years of Linux and Free Software-focused experience and 14 years in SRE/DevOps roles, currently working at Bitpanda and running his consultancy, Wyrd Dreams. He combines deep production experience with containerised, cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Terraform) and a long history of building and operating Python-backed web services at scale using Django, Flask and robust data stores like PostgreSQL, Cassandra and Elasticsearch. At Ebury he led Kafka productionisation and platform tooling, and across roles has driven observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code efforts that serve millions of users. A pragmatic engineer and documented Free Software advocate, he pairs hands-on coding and operations with mentoring and clear technical writing—the latest CV is kept public at wyrddreams.com/cv.html. Outside work he’s a photographer and chorister, reflecting an eye for detail and collaborative practice that show through his engineering approach.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Applied Computing, BSc Applied Computing at Middlesex University
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Github contributions (5)
jamestait/snappy-playpen
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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jamestait/tinygo
Nov 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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