James Mills

Principal Engineer / SRE; Founder of Yarn.social and Salty.im

• prologic.shortcircuit.net.au
• Australia/Brisbane
• prologic﹫shortcircuit·net·au
• GPG Public Key
• View my projects
• Yarn with me
• Connect via Signal
• Connect via Salty

Education

Bachelor of IT, Griffith University, Australia/Brisbane. 2002-2007

Experience

See also LinkedIn

• Principal Engineer / SRE, ANZ Oct2022-present
• Team Lead / SRE, AUCloud Nov2020-Oct2022
• Team Lead / SRE, Netdata, Inc Jan2020-Oct2020
• Cloud Engineer, MagicCube, Inc Jan2019-Nov2019
• Production Engineer, Facebook, Inc Sep2015-Jul2018
• Other Roles, Various… Dec2002-Sep2015

Portfolio

Projects

bitcask
🔑 A high performance Key/Value store written in Go with a predictable
read/write performance and high throughput. Uses a Bitcask on-disk layout
(LSM+WAL) similar to Riak.

Yarn.social
a decentralized self-hosted social media that has a privacy-first focus.

and many more…

Services

feeds.twtxt.net
A feed aggregation service for the Yarn.social
decentralised social media platform that supports RSS, Atom and Twitter™.

search.twtxt.net
A search engine and crawler for the Yarn.social
decentralised social media platform and the Twtxt
in general.

and many more…

Technical

Communication

Native: English, Technical Writing, Public Speaking

Languages

Go, Python, Bash, Shell, C, Javascript, HTML, CSS and more…
including authored

Technologies

Docker, Kubernetes, Nomad, Terraform, Packer, Consul, Vault, MySQL, PostgresSQL,
Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, AWS, DigitalOcean, Proxmox VE, Openstack,
VMWare, vSphere, vCloud, Vagrant, Linux, OpenBSD, and many more…

Processes

DevOps, DevSecOps, SDLC, Agile, SCRUM, Managing Up