J. Cockrum

Background

About J. Cockrum

Over 30 years experience in the IT industry, with recent focus on utilizing AI to boost team productivity. I’ve worked with teams from 2 to 10 members, guiding efforts, helping to focus them on objectives, and making them more efficient through proven techniques. Areas of Expertise include: Functional - AI as a planning, development and solutions enhancer- DevOps processes for operational risk mitigation- Making junior team members more effective- Planning and deploying automated, efficient automation- Solution identification, planning and development. Practical - RAG and Agentic AI with MCP integration- API design/implementation with FASTAPI and Minimal API frameworks- Microsoft Master Data Services design/implementation- Enterprise Data Warehouse design/implementation- Object Oriented Design- Back end (SQL Server/Postgres/etc.) data processing- APIs and microservices (all modes)- Asynchronous transaction processing. Process - Application/database architecture- Systems development using Agile based methodologies- Process automation providing teams more time to focus on additional tasks- Full SDLC using Agile and Scrum processes. Languages and Tools - Javascript/Typescript, C#, Blazor- T-SQL (SQL Server & Postgres)- Ansible, Terraform, Docker/Podman/Rancher- Task Master AI, VSCode, Cursor AI- GitHub, GitHub Actions and GitHub projects- Proficient in Linux, Powershell, and Windows CLIs.