Jay Warfield
Cloud Architect at IBM Cloud
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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SeniorJay Warfield is a Cloud Architect and seasoned software engineer with over 8 years focused on GenAI cloud solutions, container platforms, and virtual private cloud architectures. Based in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, he brings deep IBM experience designing standards, tooling, and developer-facing observability libraries that accelerate architect productivity (including ibmdiagrams and a Schematics/Terraform codepattern). He has a long history of shipping automation for infrastructure and application provisioning across OpenStack, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and bare-metal environments, and coauthored Terraform best-practice guidance for IBM Cloud. Jay’s background spans decades of product engineering—from media and language tooling to mobile and WebSphere integrations—reflecting a rare combination of systems-level thinking and practical delivery. He’s recognized for technical leadership and multiple Outstanding Technical Achievement awards, and he prefers solving architect challenges by codifying diagrams, standards, and repeatable patterns that reduce onboarding time.
8 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (31)
javascript10
javascript-client10
graph-drawing10
diagramming10
draw10
diagram10
graph-editor10
drawio10
editor10
whiteboard10
graphviz9
react9
architecture8
ibm-cloud8
zeplin7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ibm-cloud-architecture/infrastructure-design-decision-tool
Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:139 pushes in 1 year 7 months
jaywarfield/drawio
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Source to app.diagrams.net
Contributions:43 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 month
diagrams
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