Bio
James has been a lifelong enthusiast of technology, and has been lucky enough to be paid to tinker with it for the past 15 years or so. He in particular has a fondness for infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, which when given the proper care are oftentimes the unsung hero of any successful delivery team. James has been a consultant for over half his career, and finds it to be the perfect means of combining his desire to help people with his love of technology.
In his spare time you can find James taking his young daughters to the park, playing board games with friends and family, or working on the seemingly endless home improvement projects he finds himself doing.
My Talks
A few tips to smooth out a Backstage roll out
Backstage is still really neat, but rolling it out to a large enterprise can be tricky. In this talk I'll share a few tips that helped smooth things out tremendously.
A reminder to use Docker in your CI/CD pipeline
Using Docker to abstract away the underlying build agents of your CI/CD pool has been one of the greatest use cases of Docker ever. And yet, there are still organizations out there that aren't taki...
Pipelines as code with Dagger
I've been a big fan of using Docker in build pipelines for many years. It's made it easier for me to debug build steps locally, but it doesn't go far enough. Dagger--a new OSS project from the crea...