James Mills

Lead SRE / DevOps; Founder of Yarn.social

Education

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

Experience  

various roles, details available on request. 2002-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 much more.

Processes

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

Personal

Birth date: 15 September 1982

Citizenship: Australia

Residence: Australia (citizen)

Family: Married, two children


Last updated: September 2021