James Mills
Lead SRE Engineer; Founder of Yarn.social and Salty.im
Education
Bachelor of IT, Griffith University, Australia/Brisbane. 2002-2007
Experience
- Team Lead / SRE, AUCloud Nov2020-present
- Team Lead / SRE, Netdata, Inc Jan2020-Oct2020
- Cloud Engineer, MagicCube, Inc Jan2019-Nov2019
- Production Engineer, Facebook, Inc Sep2015-Jul2018
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.
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.
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