James Allen

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Summary

Ten-plus years building and scaling accessible web applications, platform services, and developer tooling. Strong at leading cross-functional teams, designing resilient architecture, and delivering with measurable impact.

Experience

Principal Software Engineer · Aurora Labs

2021 — Present · Remote

  • Led modernization of a real-time analytics platform serving 50K+ daily active users with 99.95% uptime.
  • Coached a team of 8 engineers, establishing progressive delivery pipelines and improved on-call practices.
  • Shipped accessibility upgrades that lifted WCAG compliance scores from 72% to 96% in six months.

Senior Full-Stack Developer · Northwind Digital

2017 — 2021 · Seattle, WA

  • Delivered a design system adopted by 5 product teams, reducing UI defects by 40% release-over-release.
  • Implemented observability stack with distributed tracing, cutting MTTR from 90 minutes to 18 minutes.
  • Partnered with PMs to run quarterly roadmap experiments, leading to 28% revenue growth in 18 months.

Full-Stack Engineer · Horizon Startups

2014 — 2017 · Austin, TX

  • Built MVPs for three venture-funded products, driving a combined 200K user signups in the first year.
  • Introduced automated testing framework covering 85% of critical paths, enabling weekly releases.
  • Maintained AWS infrastructure-as-code, reducing monthly spend by 18% through right-sizing workflows.

Skills

Languages

TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust, Go, Python

Frameworks

React, Astro, Next.js, Express, Fastify

Platforms & Tools

AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Storybook

Selected Projects

Education

B.S. in Computer Science · University of Texas at Austin

2010 — 2014