Jim Priest
Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorJim Priest is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of IT experience and a 12-year track record in hands-on engineering and DevOps across enterprise and government projects. He specializes in modernizing legacy systems, automating repetitive workflows, and building reliable CI/CD and monitoring solutions using tools like Jenkins, Ansible, AWS, Splunk, and Grafana. Comfortable across the stack, Jim combines ColdFusion and Python development with database expertise (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL) and test automation (Robot Framework, Selenium) to deliver measurable operational improvements. He’s driven documentation and process improvements at scale—organizing Confluence/SharePoint content, introducing linting and integration tests, and replacing manual job setups with Jenkins pipelines. A longtime community builder, he organizes the Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group and helped launch NCDevCon, reflecting a passion for sharing knowledge beyond the codebase. Off-duty he’s as curious as on-duty—he’s skydived, stood on the equator, and builds quadcopters to learn system behavior from first principles.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
173reputation
19kreached
3answers
6questions
Github Skills (200)
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robotics10
browser10
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react-testing-library10
firefox10
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database-access10
svelte-testing-library10
sublime10
oracle10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jimpriest/cfo2014
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 4 months
jimpriest/presentations
Mar 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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