James Sanford
  https://froop.com/
  https://github.com/jamessanford/

Overview:
  Linux/UNIX Systems Engineer

  Automation of large Linux and container based "cloud" infrastructures.
  Troubleshooting complex systems, from source code to protocol to packets.

  Programming fluency in Go, Python, bash.

Professional Experience:
  Systems Reliability Team
  CloudFlare, San Francisco, CA     April 2015 - July 2016

    - Rewrote parts of metrics pipeline and functionality probing. (Go, Python)

    - Transition monitoring system to Prometheus (timeseries and rule based),
      replacing legacy Nagios system.

    - Improved automation when bringing up new bare metal servers. (Python)

    - Capacity estimation tooling and dashboard. (Go, Grafana)

    - Oncall rotation for production HTTP and DNS servers.

  Site Reliability Engineering
  Google Inc, Mountain View, CA     October 2005 - July 2011

    - Borg SRE team, worldwide task scheduling and machine deployments.

    - Developed C++ simulation of Borg task scheduling system.
      This allowed measurement and prediction of capacity and risk,
      testing of datacenter-scale changes, and experiments in binpacking.
      A team was created to build out software based on this simulation.

    - Backend API to manage resource allocation in clusters. (Python)

    - Coordination point between operations and engineering
      teams to assist with using the Borg infrastructure.

    - Oncall rotation for Borg service worldwide.

  Senior UNIX Systems Architect
  Critical Path, San Francisco, CA  December 1999 - May 2002
                                    January 2003 - March 2005

    - Software deployment automation system in C and Perl,
      managing releases to hundreds of servers.

    - Oncall rotation for hosted email platform.


References:
  Acknowledged in "Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg" paper
  for work on task scheduling simulation.
  https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43438.html