Jim Lawton
Senior Principal Architect at Forcepoint
Cork, Munster, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Lawton is a seasoned software engineer and architect with 16+ years of experience designing and shipping complex systems spanning cloud-native network security, infrastructure-as-code, and embedded device software. He currently architects and implements virtual firewall services for public cloud, blending Unix systems programming, AWS, Terraform, containers, and networking to deliver secure, scalable deployments. His background ranges from ASIC and CPU design to embedded STB firmware and CI/CD for large open-source TV platforms, giving him rare end-to-end insight from silicon to cloud. Proficient in Python, C, Go, and Terraform, he pairs deep systems-level expertise with practical delivery of production services and developer tooling. Based in Cork, Ireland, he also pursues retro-computing interests that reflect a long-standing curiosity about historic architectures and low-level design.
16 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., Electrical Engineering, H1 (1.1), B.E., Electrical Engineering, H1 (1.1) at University College Cork
Github Skills (42)
javascript10
mainframe10
chat10
slack10
honeywell10
apollo10
webrtc10
collaboration10
data-protection9
meteor9
communications9
graphql8
network-connection8
bash8
directions7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jimlawton/hyper-hacks
Apr 2017 - Oct 2024
Contributions:25 pushes in 7 years 6 months
combinationkarabinerelementskarabiner-elementsalfred
jimlawton/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
Shell and environment configuration. This started out as Bash setup and has gradually expanded. The goal is to be able to stand up a new machine by just cloning out this repo and running a script.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 456 pushes in 10 years 3 months
new-machinestandgoalenvironment-configurationlinux
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