James White
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Funding Circle UK
St Leonards, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames White is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating resilient, cost-conscious cloud platforms across startups and scale-ups in the UK. He combines hands-on software development (Go, Python, Ruby, TypeScript) with infrastructure automation (Terraform, Chef, AWS) to deliver scalable CI/CD, observability, and cost-saving initiatives—having cut S3 bills and automated Jenkins and macOS rendering clusters. As a former platform lead, he’s delivered serverless APIs, reworked data pipelines for huge performance gains, and led teams through incident response and reliability improvements. His open-source work ranges from full-stack UI improvements to back-end tooling, including a cron-monitoring service and enhancements to an opcache status page, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and operability. Based in St Leonards, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a track record of mentoring engineers and turning operational pain points into automated, observable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE, GCSE at Roding Valley High SchoolBachelor of Science (BSc), Computing, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing, First Class Honours at Bournemouth UniversityA Level, Maths, Business and ICT, A Level, Maths, Business and ICT at Trinity Catholic High School
English
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Github Skills (23)
command-line-interface10
ruby10
php10
command-line10
javascript9
activerecord8
html8
css8
d3js7
sh6
shell6
script6
ruby-on-rails6
google-cloud-storage6
devise6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jamesrwhite/minicron
Feb 2014 - May 2021
👨🏻💻 Monitor your cron jobs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 1075 commits, 75 PRs in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:James was primarily focused on developing the back-end functionality for a system to manage and monitor cron jobs. Their work included adding and modifying command-line interfaces using a combination of Ruby and the Commander gem. They demonstrated an understanding of process management and interaction with the operating system through the use of PTY and shell command execution. They also implemented integration with a Faye-based service.
golangmonitorcron-jobscronschedule
rlerdorf/opcache-status
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
A one-page opcache status page
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user interface of the opcache-status tool. They refactored the code to separate data models from the presentation layer, making the codebase more maintainable. Further improvements include code alignment fixes and removing unnecessary line breaks for improved readability. The user also addressed missing data and styles related to the visualization of data.
status-pagestatusopcacheone-page
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