James Cook

@JamesCook

Award-Winning Technology Executive Driving Platform, Risk & Scale

London, UKJoined February 2021

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Executive technology leader responsible for platform reliability, cloud operations, security posture, and enterprise technology risk within an investor-backed fintech environment. I lead technology operations at the intersection of engineering execution, governance, and business outcomes — ensuring platforms are scalable, resilient, and trusted by investors, regulators, and clients.

Currently VP of DevOps at InvestorFlow, where I focus on building board-ready technology operations, strengthening risk and resilience, and shaping long-term platform strategy to support growth and regulatory confidence.

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JCJames Cookjamescook.devMar 30 · 8 min read

Setting up the Azure Terraform MCP Server in Visual Studio Code

If you've been using Copilot or Claude in VS Code to help write Terraform for Azure, you'll have hit the same wall I did: the model is confidently wrong about provider arguments more often than feels

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JCJames Cookjamescook.devMar 6 · 12 min read

Terraform Plan as a Pull Request Comment in GitHub Actions

If you have ever sat through a Terraform pull request review where the reviewer simply trusted that the author had run plan locally and got the right output, you already know why this post exists. The

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JCJames Cookjamescook.devFeb 16 · 12 min read

AI-Assisted IaC Reviews: Using Claude and Copilot to Audit Your Azure Terraform

If you've been writing Terraform for Azure for any length of time, you'll know that code reviews are where most of the real quality work happens. A plan might be clean, the pipeline might be green, an

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JCJames Cookjamescook.proJan 2 · 4 min read

Capacity is a Leadership Decision: Aligning Teams with Product and Business Priorities

Capacity is often treated as an operational concern — something to be solved through headcount, backlogs, or sprint velocity. In reality, capacity management is a leadership responsibility. It reflects how clearly priorities are set, how trade-offs a...

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JCJames Cookjamescook.proDec 21, 2025 · 4 min read

Navigating the Leadership Shift: From Technologist to Executive

A new title doesn’t mark the most important evolution in a technology leader’s career. It happens much earlier — often quietly — when technical excellence ceases to be the primary source of impact and leadership judgment takes its place. For many sen...

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Setting up the Azure Terraform MCP Server in Visual Studio Code

Terraform Plan as a Pull Request Comment in GitHub Actions

AI-Assisted IaC Reviews: Using Claude and Copilot to Audit Your Azure Terraform

Capacity is a Leadership Decision: Aligning Teams with Product and Business Priorities

Navigating the Leadership Shift: From Technologist to Executive

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James Cook's blogs

Recently published

Setting up the Azure Terraform MCP Server in Visual Studio Code

Terraform Plan as a Pull Request Comment in GitHub Actions

AI-Assisted IaC Reviews: Using Claude and Copilot to Audit Your Azure Terraform

Capacity is a Leadership Decision: Aligning Teams with Product and Business Priorities

Navigating the Leadership Shift: From Technologist to Executive