jamesinjapan
James Simpson
Kawasaki, Japan

Backend developer and Site Reliability Engineer with a strong grounding in the AWS ecosystem, web scraping workflows and API development. Looking for remote opportunities either as a Ruby-based backend developer or as an advocate of SRE or DevOps practices.

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マネーツリー・Moneytree
2 years 5 months
Remote
Backend Engineer
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021 (2 months)
Maintain the Ruby on Rails-based services and cloud-based infrastructure powering a FinTech application while continuing to advocate for site reliability engineering practices.
ruby on rails aws cloudformation postgresql nodeJS rspec amazon s3 heroku circle ci sumo logic
Site Reliability Engineer
May 2020 - Dec 2020 (7 months)
Monitoring, maintaining and strengthening cloud-based distributed systems and the processes that support them.
aws lambda postgresql sumo logic ruby on rails nodeJS postgresql circle ci heroku terraform aws cloudformation ruby aws bash
Data Aggregation Engineer
Sep 2018 - May 2020 (1 year 8 months)
Extend and maintain web and API scraping infrastructure for a rapidly growing FinTech application.
XUL nodeJS ruby on rails sumo logic circle ci aws swf aws step functions amazon s3
IHS Jane's
Oct 2014 - May 2015 (7 months)
Remote
Freelance Contributor
Report on breaking Japanese defence news and defence industry news for Jane's Defence Weekly.
War is Boring
Jun 2013 - Jan 2017 (3 years 7 months)
Remote
Freelance Writer
Writing articles on Japan, North Korea and video games.

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University of Wales, Aberystwyth
BScEcon, International Politics and Strategic Studies
Sep 2003 - Jul 2006
Dissertation title: ''Normalisation' and the Japanese People - Is the gradual 'normalisation' of Japan in the interests of its people?'
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
MScEcon, Security Studies (Research Training)
Sep 2006 - Sep 2007
Dissertation title: 'North Korea, Japan and the Politics of Fear - The (Ab)use of the Abduction Issue'

The course was a taught Masters with a devotion to training for research activities including quantitative and qualitative methodology.
CertTESOL
Jul 2008
Developing and Maintaining a Laboratory Quality Management System
Feb 2013
Sumo Logic Level 1: Sumo Pro User
Feb 2019

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