Jim Curtis
Volunteer at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento
Placerville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Curtis is a seasoned Master Technologist and software architect with over 15 years of product and platform experience at HP and a Principal Software Engineer tenure at Red Hat, specializing in high-availability clustering, virtualization, and multi-system management. He has a proven track record of driving architecture and delivery for large, distributed teams, introducing Agile practices, CI/CD, and Docker-based development environments while mentoring engineers and acting as product owner. Jim’s work spans low-level OS and driver debugging, patented distributed locking and API designs, and novel proofs-of-concept such as an 80% accuracy improvement in WiFi-based location tracking. An active contributor to open-source learning tooling and serverless scenarios on OpenShift, he blends deep systems expertise with practical DevOps and backend scripting skills. Based in Placerville, CA, he also volunteers locally with Habitat for Humanity, reflecting a commitment to community alongside technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at California State University, Chico
English
Github Skills (11)
script10
bash10
openshift10
serverless-functions10
openwhisk10
dockers9
docker9
maven8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
cicd6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openshift-labs/learn-katacoda
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
The OpenShift learning portal, powered by Katacoda
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 12 PRs, 20 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on developing and configuring serverless scenarios within the OpenShift environment. They set up and modified the OpenWhisk CLI and environment configurations. The contributions involved the creation and modification of scripts and configuration files to set up and manage cloud functions, including creating new projects and patching routes. The user's work also included managing dependencies and pre-populating maven repositories for the serverless environment.
katacodaopenshift
jimcurtis/openwhisk-katacoda
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:9 PRs, 241 pushes in 28 days
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