James Storey, BCompSc

jastorey.me | hello@jastorey.me | LinkedIn | Austin, TX | (737) 400-1944

Lead Software Engineer

Full Stack Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience building networked application platforms and cloud infrastructure for fast moving startups. Passionate about using lean software development practices to meet business needs while balancing costs, performance, and security. Experienced at scaling application performance while maintaining high-availability, starting at fewer than 10 customers and growing to over 100k customers while reliably fulfilling thousands of requests per second.

Skills

Go
Python
Linux
JS/TS
Vue
HTMX
RESTful HTTP API Design
gRPC APIs
Debugging & Troubleshooting
SQLite
MySQL/MariaDB
Unit Testing
Integration Testing
End-to-End Testing
Continuous Integration and Deployment
k8s
Cloud Networking
Containerization
OAuth2
OIDC
Systems Architecture Design
Grafana & Prometheus
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Gitlab CI
Agile Methodology
Software Project Management
Engineering Management
Git Version Control
Performance analysis and Optimization
WebRTC
Graphics (opengl)
Unity3D
High-Availablity Services
Stripe
AWS:  EC2, ECS, Cloudfront, Lambda, S3, VPC, ALB, Fargate, GameLift, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, SES

Work Experience

Lead Software Engineer

WIN Reality Jan 2019 to Present

Software Engineer

Triseum Jan 2016 to Jan 2019

Early Career

Technical Assistant

Texas A&M University Jan 2014 to Jan 2015

Freelance Software Developer

Self-Employed May 2013 to May 2014

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

2013
Texas A&M University - College Station, TX

Associate of Science in Applied Mathematics

2010
Texarkana College - Texarkana, TX