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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
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.
Site Reliability Engineer
May 2020 - Dec 2020 (7 months)
Monitoring, maintaining and strengthening cloud-based distributed systems and the processes that support them.
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.
IHS Jane's
Oct 2014 - May 2015 (7 months)
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)
Freelance Writer
Writing articles on Japan, North Korea and video games.
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Laboratory Information Management System
Jul 2012
Inalab Japan
Create an application to manage the workflow of an asbestos testing laboratory from sample submission to invoicing. Initial iteration was in Microsoft Access, but as I learned Ruby on Rails, I developed a new solution using a Heroku-hosted backend.
Upgrade Ruby on Rails on Monolithic Service
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
マネーツリー・Moneytree
Lead a three-man team as we upgraded the company's main Ruby-on-Rails-based service to a new major version.
Migrate Primary Key Column of Large Tables to 64-bit Integer
Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
マネーツリー・Moneytree
To prevent the primary key from overflowing as we approached the 32-bit integer limit, I ran and monitored the concurrent migration of IDs using background workers over several months on a system running at scale. Several tables and their dependencies were updated with minimal downtime.
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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.
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