James Young
DevOps Engineer at CNN Digital
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJames Young is a seasoned DevOps Engineer with 13 years of experience keeping high-traffic sites resilient, currently ensuring CNN.com stays reliably online for CNN Digital / WarnerMedia. His career spans hands-on roles from senior software engineer to applications architect, re-architecting CNN.com and driving operational excellence since 2011. Prior to CNN he built front-end and QA expertise at Yahoo! and led development at Cardlytics, giving him a rare blend of engineering depth across development, architecture, and operations. Based in Marietta, GA, he focuses on pragmatic reliability at scale—incident prevention, automation, and system hardening. A long-time coder with a playful “coding since the 70s” ethos, he keeps most work private, suggesting a strong emphasis on production systems and proprietary operational tooling.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Georgia State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (94)
esdoc10
sublime-text9
scanner9
javascript9
google-news9
shell8
jsdoc8
nvm8
bash8
docker8
yeoman8
lts8
nodejs8
kubernetes8
espn7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cnnlabs/cnn-google-newsstand
May 2016 - Feb 2019
CNN Google Newsstand - still used to power the xml feeds for google news as of 2019
Contributions:36 PRs, 83 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
feedsxmlgoogle-newspowernews
cnnlabs/cnn-markdown-service
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 24 pushes in 8 months
stringsformatshtml-tagsmarkdowntags
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