James Renaud

Senior Staff Engineer · Platform Architecture & Developer Enablement

Building internal platforms, cloud strategy, and paved roads that help large engineering organizations ship with confidence.

I focus on the intersection of platform engineering, cloud architecture, and developer experience—evolving Kubernetes and multi-cloud foundations, building self-service internal developer platforms across 500+ person organizations, and turning security, compliance, and engineering governance into effortless defaults through mentorship and systems thinking.

Writing

Essays and field notes on cloud architecture, operational resilience, and systems thinking.

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· AWS, CloudFormation

Mr. Worldwide: Going Global with DynamoDB

If you’re working with DynamoDB and CloudFormation, there’s little chance you haven’t been eagerly awaiting CloudFormation support for Global Tables. If you were like me, you were…

· AWS, CloudFormation

If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try, again

I’m back! It’s been literally years since my last blog post and I’ve been buried in work, and home life – oh, and of course that whole pandemic thing going on. Got married?…

Selected Projects

Side-projects, tools, and infrastructure experiments.

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jamesrenaud.ca Static Platform

Active

Personal site, blog, and portfolio statically generated with Astro and deployed to AWS S3 + CloudFront via OpenTofu.

Astro Tailwind CSS OpenTofu AWS S3 CloudFront Route 53

WordPress-to-Markdown Migrator

Completed

Automated Node.js script that pulls posts, metadata, and media from the WordPress REST API and converts them into Astro Content Collection Markdown files.

Node.js Turndown WP REST API Markdown