Jim Wyllie
Senior Director Of Site Reliability Engineering at Akamai Technologies
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJim Wyllie is a Senior Director of Site Reliability Engineering with 18 years of experience designing and leading global SRE, performance engineering, and systems architecture teams at Akamai. He has built and scaled cross-continental organizations, run a 60-person DevOps function for core CDN products, and driven initiatives that both grew MRR and reduced OpEx through advanced performance analysis. A hands-on technical leader, he still architects solutions for major product designs and personally developed enduring tooling early in his career. Jim emphasizes coaching-first management informed by formal leadership coursework and Google’s management principles, favoring autonomy, results-based evaluation, and collaborative problem solving. He combines deep network and performance expertise with a track record of hiring, mentoring, and promoting engineers across levels and geographies. Based in Cambridge, MA, he’s equally interested in technical and leadership challenges that require both rigorous engineering judgment and organizational strategy.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, 3.9 / 4.0, BS, Computer Science, 3.9 / 4.0 at Ohio University
English
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Github Skills (31)
icmp10
syn10
tcp10
ping10
aggregator9
django9
ssh9
python8
orm6
sql6
sqlalchemy6
google-visualization6
math6
networking6
charts6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jwyllie83/sshuttle
Feb 2013 - Oct 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 8 months
proxy-servertransparentadminproxydns
jwyllie83/tcpping
Feb 2010 - Jan 2021
Ping look-alike that uses TCP SYN packets to get around firewalls and ICMP blackholes
Contributions:66 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 11 years 1 month
lookpacketslook-alikeicmpfirewalls
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