James Young
Webmaster at mightygodking.com
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Young is a pragmatic SRE and longtime sysadmin with 13 years of experience building and operating reliable web and infrastructure stacks from San Francisco. He blends deep ops chops—Apache/nginx, Linux server administration, monitoring, runbooks and automation—with hands-on web development in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, having retrained through an immersive bootcamp. James has contributed to notable open-source projects like Cloud Foundry BOSH (improving CI/CD, VM lifecycle and sensitive-data filtering) and helped modernize tooling for Norvig’s PAIP Lisp book, demonstrating attention to build pipelines and content tooling. Comfortable both keeping systems alive and designing new rendering and deployment flows, he’s worked at scale (Pivotal, imgix) and still maintains personal projects such as a webcomic site and local A/V archiving for Dorkbot. Collected math and CS training underpins a pragmatic, script-first approach—he picked up Perl and other practical tooling early because he preferred building useful solutions to purely academic exercises.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Truman State UniversityApp Academy
Github Skills (14)
bosh10
markdown10
bash10
markdown-it10
cloud-foundry10
scripting10
cicd10
text-processing10
ruby10
pandoc9
database-migration9
database-migrations9
logging8
testing8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
norvig/paip-lisp
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
Lisp code for the textbook "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming"
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 6 reviews, 329 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:James primarily worked on improving the tooling and scripts for the book's content. They developed scripts to split the main text into markdown chapters, add page anchors and link page numbers, and filter non-ASCII characters. Additionally, they created scripts for tasks like preparing content for merging, generating an EPUB file, and converting markdown to plain text for OCR comparisons. This user's contributions streamlined the process of managing and formatting the book's content.
artificial-intelligencelisp
cloudfoundry/bosh
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 commits, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the BOSH project by addressing build and deployment-related issues. Their work included fixing dependencies for image builds and modifying scripts used in the CI/CD pipeline. They also worked on updating tests and configurations related to VM management, including changes to database migrations and VM creation processes. Furthermore, they improved logging and filtering of sensitive data within the system.
cloud-foundry
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