James Shubin
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James is a DevOps/Config mgmt. hacker and physiologist from Montreal, Canada. He often goes by @purpleidea on the internet, and writes "The Technical Blog of James". He works as a Principal Software Engineer for Red Hat. He started a Next Generation Config Management project called mgmt. He studied Physiology at university and sometimes likes to talk about cardiology.