James Webb
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Austin 👨🏻💻 (Banick) Rey
James is one of the brightest and most personable engineers I have had the opportunity to place. His charisma is infectious and he is truly one of a kind. Throughout his search, James was always a pleasure to talk to- He was extremely forthcoming about what he was looking for in his next position, which makes my job a lot easier. I never had to worry about James going to an interview unprepared, and every company we sent him to loved him! James can talk the talk, and walk the walk. He is the real deal.
Constantin Koehncke
James is a highly analytical and curious developer, who is not afraid to share his opinions about how to create the most value for customers. In his role at Native Instruments, he was part of a quickly scaling team that meant switching focus many times. He not only was able to do so in a effective manner, but actually always looked at the business from a holistic perspective - from digital marketing to design and product - to work on the best solution possible. This approach, combined with his technical chops makes him a unique employee for any organization - I highly recommend James.
Austin 👨🏻💻 (Banick) Rey
James is one of the brightest and most personable engineers I have had the opportunity to place. His charisma is infectious and he is truly one of a kind. Throughout his search, James was always a pleasure to talk to- He was extremely forthcoming about what he was looking for in his next position, which makes my job a lot easier. I never had to worry about James going to an interview unprepared, and every company we sent him to loved him! James can talk the talk, and walk the walk. He is the real deal.
Constantin Koehncke
James is a highly analytical and curious developer, who is not afraid to share his opinions about how to create the most value for customers. In his role at Native Instruments, he was part of a quickly scaling team that meant switching focus many times. He not only was able to do so in a effective manner, but actually always looked at the business from a holistic perspective - from digital marketing to design and product - to work on the best solution possible. This approach, combined with his technical chops makes him a unique employee for any organization - I highly recommend James.
Austin 👨🏻💻 (Banick) Rey
James is one of the brightest and most personable engineers I have had the opportunity to place. His charisma is infectious and he is truly one of a kind. Throughout his search, James was always a pleasure to talk to- He was extremely forthcoming about what he was looking for in his next position, which makes my job a lot easier. I never had to worry about James going to an interview unprepared, and every company we sent him to loved him! James can talk the talk, and walk the walk. He is the real deal.
Constantin Koehncke
James is a highly analytical and curious developer, who is not afraid to share his opinions about how to create the most value for customers. In his role at Native Instruments, he was part of a quickly scaling team that meant switching focus many times. He not only was able to do so in a effective manner, but actually always looked at the business from a holistic perspective - from digital marketing to design and product - to work on the best solution possible. This approach, combined with his technical chops makes him a unique employee for any organization - I highly recommend James.
Austin 👨🏻💻 (Banick) Rey
James is one of the brightest and most personable engineers I have had the opportunity to place. His charisma is infectious and he is truly one of a kind. Throughout his search, James was always a pleasure to talk to- He was extremely forthcoming about what he was looking for in his next position, which makes my job a lot easier. I never had to worry about James going to an interview unprepared, and every company we sent him to loved him! James can talk the talk, and walk the walk. He is the real deal.
Constantin Koehncke
James is a highly analytical and curious developer, who is not afraid to share his opinions about how to create the most value for customers. In his role at Native Instruments, he was part of a quickly scaling team that meant switching focus many times. He not only was able to do so in a effective manner, but actually always looked at the business from a holistic perspective - from digital marketing to design and product - to work on the best solution possible. This approach, combined with his technical chops makes him a unique employee for any organization - I highly recommend James.
Credentials
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GraphQL Essential Training
LinkedInAug, 2019- Oct, 2024 -
Laravel 5 Essential Training: 1 The Basics
Lynda.comOct, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
Laravel 5 Essential Training: 2 Testing, Securing, and Deploying
Lynda.comOct, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
MySQL Essential Training
Lynda.comOct, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
Chief Technology Officer Career Guide
Lynda.comFeb, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
Node.js Essential Training
Lynda.comJan, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
PHP 7 New Features
Lynda.comJan, 2017- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Senior Software Engineer
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Mar 2021 - Present
Antares is an audio technology company best known for their most famous product, AutoTune. • Worked on the three new React Native applications for Android and iOS. Work included integrating static C++ libraries into React Native and general work on app state management and navigation. • Created a NodeJS websocket server to handle Mobile to Windows Desktop notifications. • Built an Authentication Server in Laravel 8 using JWTs to gate an existing Laravel 5.4 REST API (used for buying/checking AutoTune licenses) as well as the new websocket notification server • Expanded the existing REST API, to include a dynamic onboarding questionnaire system and to handle mobile notifications. • Created a Cloud/Containerized version of AutoTune with Docker and hosted in AWS ECR/ECS Show less
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Principal Software Engineer
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Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Worked several contracts in the LA area for stealth mode startups, beginning shortly after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic • Created a React/Elixir/REST Admin Dashboard that allowed superuser management of an existing Elixir Codebase. Database was in PostgreSQL and infrastructure was AWS • Built a Laravel/React/REST Dashboard that integrated an existing MySQL data stream with Facebook’s Graph/Marketing API. • Created a React Native App (full GooglePlay Store + iOS App Store launch) that works with a Laravel Backend Show less
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Boulevard
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United States
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Real Estate Agents and Brokers
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Aug 2019 - May 2020
Boulevard is an intelligent scheduling solution and comprehensive point of sale system for salons, spas, and other appointment-based businesses. I'm a senior software engineer on the Boulevard Platform (backend) team. Our stack is Elixir/Postgres/GraphQL on the backend and Angular and React Native on the frontend. - Lead the refactoring of the orders and refunds APIs in Elixir and Absinthe/GraphQL - Reworked payment/refund authorizations with Payrix to cache and submit batched end-of day cron jobs - Added feature flags and dynamic navigation to the angular front-end - Mentored Junior developers and wrote instructive Elixir/Ecto tutorials in Confluence Show less
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Senior Software Developer
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Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Opskins.com and WAX Express trade (officially Norris Services LLC) are websites that exist as a 3rd party marketplace for users to buy, sell, and trade digital items from popular video games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and H1Z1. • Architected and built API microservices that utilized Domain Driven Design (built in Lumen) for cross-site login and identity management (aka user profile data). Created Dockerfiles for local development in docker containers. Microservies used Redis and Postgres on the backend and are up on AWS. • Developed Gifting architecture so that users can gift items or loot box cases to other users. This work is on a more traditional PHP/MySQL code base, but with a REACT front-end. • Extensive experience integrating payment providers such as Dwolla, Amazon Pay, Payoneer, Paypal, Stripe, etc. Show less
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Native Instruments
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Germany
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Musicians
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300 - 400 Employee
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Lead Developer
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Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Native Instruments is a Berlin Headquartered Music Hardware/Software company, best known for the Music Production/DJ equipment like Maschine, Tractor and Komplete Kontrol. Sounds.com is its entry into selling subscription-based music loops and samples in a self-made online marketplace • Spearheaded development of multi-month subscription plans for sounds.com (including accounting payout logic to music partners). Sounds.com built in standard MVC format in CodeIgniter (PHP 7), payment processing done in Stripe. Hosting Environment was done all in AWS, with bitbucket/CircleCI/Terraform for deployment • Developed tools for migrating sounds.com User Pricing Plans in stripe and internally, using a Resque worker. • Full unit test coverage (PHP Unit) in sounds.com as well as Postman automated tests for our RESTful API. Database was Postgres and Redis for caching • Worked on the legacy Magento 1.9 platform that runs native-instruments.com. Environment was self-hosted servers based in Berlin Data Center. Magento connected to older EBS system (International Inventory management system made by Oracle) • Was part of redesign team for thelooploft.com, a loop/sample site exclusively for selling “real” sounds recorded by musicians. Developed entirely using Shopify enterprise Show less
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The Walt Disney Company
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United States
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Entertainment Providers
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Technical Lead
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Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
The Disney Digital Media division is part of the larger Enterprise Technology division in Disney Inc.’s corporate branch. The division acts as an agency responsible for creating and maintaining websites used by all branches of disney from studios, travel, and parks. Example sites include d23.com, thewaltdisneycompany.com, partnersfcu.org • As Technical Lead, responsibilities focused on managing vendors, and the internal development team, by architecting plan for which technologies should be used (ex. Laravel, WordPress, etc), determining how many resources should be deployed (server nodes, load balancers, cdn’s, etc), and doing code reviews. • Developed several in house WordPress plugins, such as an smtp configuration/testing plugin to test that smtp mail is working, and a URL rewrite plugin to remap link urls when files are hosted via a NFS Share (server is tricked into thinking external directory is local). • Debugged/patched a Unity3D project for Epcot’s Colortopia experience to get it working with a web server managed by DDM. Included changes to REST api. Project allowed guests to digitally paint a mural and have the final image emailed to them. • Significant use of Disney's in house Single Sign On Authentication platform, MyID, as well as third party SSO SiteMinder. • Assisted with migration of several internal NAP7 hosted websites to AWS (also transitioned repos from GitHub to GitLab) Show less
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Software Developer III
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Jun 2016 - Nov 2017
Inseego Wirless (formerly Novatel Wireless) is a SaaS and wireless hardware company. The focus of work for SaaS team is standing up/modifying online purchasing portals for enterprise businesses on behalf of T-Mobile and Sprint. I.e. websites organizations like MGM, or the US Airforce use to buy products from T-Mobile/Sprint with custom pricing and analytics. • Helped with moving older OScommerce procedural code to new object oriented class and namespace framework. Use of Doctorine for Database handling. • Created several integral shopping cart code classes including an order copying function that allowed users to recreate past/saved orders • Created several in house tools including one which allowed non developers to stand up generic portals (subdomain websites) without any developer assistance. Included use of cross browser API and PHP image manipulation (logo size/type standardization) • Projects tracked via Gitlab (commits made via command line and Tortoise Git) • Projects focused on LAMP stack with lots of Javascript/Jquery, but with some focus on testing new technologies like Node.js for customer service chat tools, etc. • Team of 15 follows Agile Scrum/Kanban methodology with daily standups and quarterly retrospectives, but also with a focus on pod based work instead of sprints. Show less
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Nexus Brands Group
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United States
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Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Lead Web Developer
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Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
Nexus brands encompasses several companies including Beyondvape.com, Tatsoul.com, Comfortgroom.com, Comfortsoul.com, and IP-Shark.com • Managed team of 5 full stack developers, based locally and overseas • Updated and maintained in-house Order Tracking software (nicknamed OT) that hooked into over twenty active Zen-Cart databases. OT built with Code Igniter. • Ran multitude of MySQL reports on data points such as customer behaviors/buying habits, salesperson sales data, as well as created scripts to help determine likelihood of duplicate customer accounts. • Helped construct the ipshark.com data-crawling platform in Laravel, which utilizes a RESTful API. Personally developed all web crawlers that scan ecommerce sites such as Amazon, Alibaba, and Ebay. Show less
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Trigan Media
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Software Development
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Lead Web Developer
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Jan 2013 - Oct 2015
Trigan Media (triganmedia.com) is a freelance Web Development company in Albuquerque, NM. • Backend Web Developer for Sandia Labs (contract). Did work on sandia.gov including their corporate policy search function. Also developed several in-house tools for Sandia Labs payroll dept, rocket launch division, and energy storage systems. Development for sandia.gov was done in Cascade Server and Wordpress. • Lead Backend Web Developer (PHP/MySQL) for local social media startup funded by local VC. itsums.com • Development of JavaScript “bookmarklet” (JavaScript executed through bookmark link) which opens popup on web page, scraping data and adding it to a MySQL database. Very similar to Pinterest, but with more data collection. • JavaScript/jQuery canvas development such as a custom drawn pie chart to reflect values added to database by bookmarklet. • Side projects include ddssave.com (Magento site) and aa-spark.com (event site for Albuquerque Academy created with standard PHP/MySQL). Show less
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Moonlight Graham Inc.
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United States
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Music
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Web Developer
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Jun 2011 - Dec 2012
Moonlight Graham is a producer of vintage style clothing in the city of Orange as well as a record label representing several bands including X, William Pilgrim, and Skating Polly. • Constructed and Maintained several band websites (i.e. exenecervenka.net) utilizing Dreamweaver, Photoshop, HTML5, CSS3, and Jquery. • Constructed and Maintained several ecommerce sites (i.e. moonlightgraham.net) using the Magento community framework which required the use of PHP and MySQL, as well as the Magento hosted solution Magento Go. • Constructed and Maintained several Wordpress sites (i.e. Hollywoodwaste.com) which required extensive use of PHP, HTML 5, CSS3, Jquery, and WordPress plugins (i.e. Buddypress). Show less
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HP
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Azerbaijan
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Online Media
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Inside Sales Representative
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Jun 2010 - May 2011
The largest PC manufacturer in the World, HP is world technology leader employing over 300,000 employees worldwide. • From a dual monitor workspace, took incoming calls and closed sales for business oriented IT equipment (i.e. desktops, laptops, servers, printers). • Utilized a multi-line Avaya phone system, as well as the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and Messenger). The largest PC manufacturer in the World, HP is world technology leader employing over 300,000 employees worldwide. • From a dual monitor workspace, took incoming calls and closed sales for business oriented IT equipment (i.e. desktops, laptops, servers, printers). • Utilized a multi-line Avaya phone system, as well as the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and Messenger).
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Education
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2019 - 2021
California State University, Fullerton
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering -
2008 - 2009
New York University
BA, English/Anthropology
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