James Wilson
Retiree at James Wilson
Henderson, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolJames Wilson is a seasoned network and security engineer with over two decades in IT and more than a decade focused on SaaS/cloud hosting, high‑availability networking and DevOps/SRE automation. He has deep hands‑on expertise in BGP multi‑homing, OSPF/EIGRP, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, and large‑scale data center rearchitectures, paired with strong Linux, Solaris and Windows skills. At companies like Salesforce and Flexera he led reliability and automation efforts—often building Python tooling to integrate monitoring, ticketing and DNS provisioning—and served as a scrummaster for cross‑functional teams. He’s guided numerous compliance programs (FISMA ATO, SSAE‑16) and customer audits, bringing a practical security posture to production operations. An active contributor to open source front‑end work (notably enhancements to the Electron-based OpenBazaar client), he blends low‑level networking know‑how with application‑level improvements to deliver resilient, auditable infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree C&S, Bachelor's degree C&S at University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
electron10
backbonejs9
backbone9
html8
image7
imagehandler7
imageio7
imager7
nodejs7
image-management7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar-Client
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
(DEPRECATED) Front-end Electron application for talking with the OpenBazaar-Server daemon
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 14 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the front-end of the OpenBazaar client application. Their work involved modifying views, particularly related to item editing and user profile pages, and implementing image handling functionality. The user also addressed code quality issues by refactoring and adding suggestions for security improvements. They demonstrated experience in JavaScript, HTML, and Backbone.js, along with interactions with the Electron framework.
reactelectronp2pjavascriptdaemon
jamesdwilson/botkit
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
chatbotbotbotkit
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