James Wing
Principal DevOps Engineer at impact.com
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Wing is a Principal DevOps Engineer in Seattle with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, leading engineering teams, and founding a startup focused on data ingest with Apache NiFi. He combines deep infrastructure skills—Terraform, GKE, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and multi-cloud operations—with a background in software development and data engineering, having migrated systems between AWS and GCP and modernized deployment pipelines. James has led teams from startup to scale, drove Mercent’s move from quarterly to weekly releases, and still contributes bug fixes and enhancements to the widely used Apache NiFi project. His MBA and advanced technical certificates complement a pragmatic approach to bridging business requirements with robust, observable production systems. Practical, curious, and process-minded, he favors GitOps, automation, and measurable reliability improvements that reduce toil while enabling faster delivery.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Information Systems, M.S. Information Systems at University of WashingtonCertificate Big Data Technologies, Certificate Big Data Technologies at UW Professional & Continuing EducationMBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
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Github Skills (22)
aws-lambda10
amazon-web-services10
java10
javas10
amazon-s310
api-design9
javascript9
json9
apim9
permission9
aws9
api9
nodejs9
firebase9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/nifi
Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
Apache NiFi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 36 PRs, 313 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:James contributed to the Apache NiFi project by addressing several issues and implementing enhancements. Their work included fixing logging issues, improving the Controller Service Usage button, and client-side JavaScript for proxy-friendly URLs. They also worked on AWS credential refactoring and enhancements, and merging child group contents in exported templates. This indicates a focus on improving core functionality and addressing specific bugs within the NiFi framework.
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jvwing/nifi
Jan 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:62 pushes, 87 branches in 2 years 1 month
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