James Armstrong is a seasoned product delivery, infrastructure and DevOps leader with extensive experience delivering scalable, secure and reliable solutions that meet the unique requirements of heavily regulated industries. With a background that includes working with startups like Informavores and billion-dollar companies like Salesforce.com, Armstrong excels at finding practical, cost-effective solutions that support, enable and grow businesses.

Armstrong's expertise lies in DevOps, infrastructure, core product architecture, requirements gathering, and business analysis. He has led teams in managing agile change to fulfill requirements, ensuring data protection and compliance with regulations like HIPAA, SOC2, and PCI DSS. As a Director of Engineering at Uplight, he brings his technical acceleration experience to helping financial institutions and other heavily regulated industries adopt Agile development and DevOps practices.

Armstrong has a BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering from the University of South Wales. He has also held positions as Partner at Armstrong Architecture, Principal Consultant at Contino and Technical Director at Vision Critical.