James Wagner
Senior Managing Strategy Consultant - Cloud Platforms
Wadsworth, Ohio, United States
Summary
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SeniorJames Wagner is a senior cloud and DevOps strategist with 20+ years of hands-on systems and operations experience and 13 years in senior roles, currently leading cloud platform strategy at BoxBoat/IBM. He specializes in Linux-first infrastructure, Kubernetes at scale, Terraform IaC, and automating deployments for large e-commerce and enterprise environments, having led Kubernetes adoption from zero to 1,000+ apps. A longtime advocate for managed cloud and developer enablement, he combines architecture and ops coaching with grassroots community building—founder of DevOpsMastery and organizer of active Kubernetes communities. His background spans security (CISSP), legacy Java app servers, load balancing, and pragmatic migration paths from VMs to EKS, reflecting a career-long focus on making developer teams faster and more autonomous.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (31)
monitoring10
docker10
observability10
postgresql10
mysql10
linux10
full-stack10
ai10
data-visualization10
devops10
mongodb10
database10
kubernetes9
push-notifications9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wags007/podcastMaster
Jan 2014 - Jun 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 5 pushes in 7 years 5 months
wags007/webhook.site
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
⚓️ Easily test HTTP webhooks with this handy tool that displays requests instantly.
Contributions:1 push in 3 years 5 months
webhooks
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