James Telfer
Lead Engineer (Site Reliability) at Culture Amp
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Telfer is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer based in Greater Melbourne with 15 years of experience building and operating resilient, production-grade systems. He has progressed through senior and staff SRE roles at Flexera and Culture Amp, combining deep operational discipline with hands-on software engineering and automation. James excels at bridging legacy systems and cloud-native practices, having delivered end-to-end web and e-commerce solutions earlier in his career and led reliability efforts in fast-moving product environments. Known for pragmatic incident response and scalable platform design, he helps teams reduce toil while improving developer velocity. His background in full-stack web development and systems architecture gives him a practical appreciation for both product deadlines and long-term service health.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of South Australia
Github Skills (200)
devsecops10
distributed-tracing10
security10
chocolatey10
profiling10
opentelemetry10
monitoring10
amazon-ecr10
github-app10
secrets10
devtools10
github-token10
credentials10
cli10
buildkite10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
chinmina/chinmina-git-credentials-buildkite-plugin
Apr 2024 - Apr 2026
Seamless GitHub application token authentication for Buildkite. Combines a Git credential helper with a chinmina-bridge endpoint to allow Buildkite agents securely authorize Github repository access.
Contributions:6 releases, 10 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years
authorizebuildkitetoken-autheticationbuildkite-plugin
cultureamp/protect-event-parameters
Sep 2020 - Jun 2024
A Github action that ensures repository_dispatch parameters are not displayed in the output
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 5 PRs in 3 years 10 months
dispatchparametersgocdrepository-dispatch
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