James McCallum | Fractional SRE
Through proven engineering practices, I can help your team deliver features faster, make your code base more resilient to change and ensure your product keeps pace as your customers grow.
Services
Providing the following services to both product companies and consultancies. General themes of reliability, software architecture & simplification, security and agility.
product
companies
Fractional SRE
I'll join your squad on a fractional basis and we'll tackle the tech challenges that are slowing your team down. Together we can work towards a state where new features are delivered at the end of every sprint.
can include
Simplifying application so team can go faster
Turbocharging the team through enhanced local development experience
Clearing technical debt that slows you down
Improving logs and metrics for better insights
Writing cloud deployments
Automating your workflows
Getting ready for production with thorough checks
Learning through workshops and coaching
Customer Outcomes
Mini projects that have recently been completed for customers. Successful business outcomes through effective delivery via technology resulting in happy customers.
Help Objective product transition to SaaS business model via migration to cloud native architecture and new deployments and automation that allow developers to spend more time on features.
azure
java
maven
springboot
docker
azure containers
postgres
activemq
kubernetes
nodejs
typescript
playwright
software architecture
Help immutable prepare for ~150k concurrent users on launch of new web3 game title by providing architecture and production readiness review.
architecture
aws
kubernetes
web3
production readiness review
observability
Read about how together we built a cloud platform that reduced the time it takes for KPMG to get new products to market by writing a multi-language cloud acceleration library usable by multiple development teams around the world.
This means that new customer development products and POC could start with deployment and observability that is inline with the KPMG security standard.
terraform
pulumi
typescript
aws
azure
inner-source
serverless
fargate
docker
mocha
platform as a service
guardrails
security as code
open policy agent
Book
Customers new or old - let’s chat. I’d love to discuss the requirements of your mini-project or spitball ideas on why your product features have stopped flowing or even just grab a virtual coffee together.