James Tonkin
Senior Release Operations Manager
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJames Tonkin is a Senior Release Operations Manager with nine years of technical and leadership experience, blending hands-on data engineering with release orchestration across Data Science, Data Integration, and EDW teams. He drives automation, reliability, and cross-team alignment—building dashboards, standardizing runbooks, and leading CI/CD proof-of-concept efforts that reduced manual work and improved release predictability. A former Senior Data Engineer, he implemented Kafka-to-Redshift pipelines, migrated legacy scoring systems to Python, and achieved a 90%+ claims-to-case matching rate that enabled successful ML models. His background in field operations and nine years in the US Army give him a pragmatic, mission-focused approach to incident response and process ownership. Known for fostering trust and constructive culture during major transitions, he pairs technical rigor with fast learning and a knack for turning messy operational workflows into repeatable, auditable processes.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Data Management / Data Analytics B.S., Data Management / Data Analytics B.S. at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (23)
sql-server6
sql6
django-blog5
sprint4
orientation4
api3
chat3
django-project3
django3
twitch3
broadcast3
django-framework3
web-application3
pinterest2
llc2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Contributions:25 commits, 22 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 months
reactschool-softwarenashvillegithub-classroom
EducatedCamels/djangazon
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:20 PRs, 25 pushes, 21 branches in 20 days
djangopythonweb-application
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