James Brundage
Founder Lead Developer at Start-Automating
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Brundage is a founder and lead developer in Seattle with 14 years of experience delivering automation-first, full‑stack solutions and production-grade CI/CD. A Microsoft MVP in Azure/PowerShell, he is a PowerShell specialist who automates end-to-end workflows, uses GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, and leverages Docker and extensible architecture to drive measurable business impact. As founder of Start-Automating he emphasizes test-verified tooling and has contributed validation and test automation improvements to high‑visibility Azure projects like azure-quickstart-templates and arm-ttk. Comfortable reading many languages and even scripting SVGs, he pairs reverse‑engineering instincts with pragmatic security (practical JEA) to make brittle systems robust and extensible. Colleagues know him for relentless problem-solving, quantified results, and a knack for turning integration challenges into new automation opportunities.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
None, Computer Science, None, Computer Science at Kent State University
Github Skills (17)
json10
pester10
powershell-710
microsoft-azure10
azure-resource-manager10
azure-arm-templates10
arm-templates10
resource-manager10
arm10
powershell10
azure10
resourcemanager10
test-automation10
testing9
bicep9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/arm-ttk
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
Azure Resource Manager Template Toolkit
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 324 commits, 158 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `azure/arm-ttk` repository, which involves the Azure Resource Manager Template Toolkit, by fixing bugs in the toolkit's test cases and adding improvements. Their work involved debugging the discovery process of text boxes in the CreateUIDefinition, improving and clarifying error messages, and modifying tests related to resource ID. They were also responsible for implementing checks for parameter and variable references and adding additional validation to deployment templates.
template-managertemplate-toolkitresource-managerazure-resource-managerazure
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:Test Automation Engineer / DevOps Engineer
Test Automation Engineer / DevOps EngineerContributions:62 commits, 20 PRs, 15 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:James's contributions primarily focused on implementing and refining testing frameworks within the Azure Quickstart Templates repository. They introduced and updated PowerShell-based template validation, including the addition of test cases and associated validation files. Their work also included refactoring and merging updates to ensure the tests were current with the main branch, as well as updates for improved formatting.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
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