James Walker
Team Lead, R&D at Arctic Wolf
Aylesford, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorJames Walker is a pragmatic engineering manager and Team Lead in R&D with a decade of experience building platform and reliability teams that engineers actually want to join. Based in Aylesford, Nova Scotia, he leads Arctic Wolf’s North American site reliability effort to reduce toil and increase operational resilience. He blends hands-on SRE practices with people-focused leadership, prioritizing sustainable automation and developer experience. Known to peers as a "Feral Nerd," he brings a curious, unconventional approach to problem solving that surfaces practical improvements others miss. His work emphasizes creating reliable systems and empowering engineers to move faster without sacrificing stability.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
python9
programming-language8
microservices6
infrastructure6
dx4
backstage3
cpython1
mercurial1
risc1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jdswalker/Advent-of-Code-2015
Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
jdswalker/Interpreter-in-Prolog
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:52 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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