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
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Github Skills (200)
sql-client10
postgresql10
testing10
db210
automation10
erd10
robotframework10
ros10
javascript10
robotics10
nosql10
sublime-text10
chromium10
editor10
vue-testing-library10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jimpriest/robotframework-preso
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
Introduction to Robot Framework - TriTAUG Presentation
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
robotframework
jimpriest/cfo2014
Feb 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 4 months
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