James Spivey
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
👤
SeniorJames Spivey is a seasoned engineering leader currently directing engineering at Capital One, bringing 20+ years of experience building and scaling high-impact platforms. He has led multi-national teams across Cisco’s $14B CX portfolio and Shutterstock’s platform, driving significant revenue impact, rapid release cycles, and improved quality across diverse geographies. Known for turning complex, cross-functional programs into repeatable, high-velocity delivery, he has implemented organizational cultures based on trust, psychological safety, and mentorship, resulting in low attrition and strong engineer growth. He has championed open-source programs, architectural standards, and diversity initiatives while partnering closely with senior leadership to identify opportunities for technical and process improvements. Based in Washington, DC, he holds a BS in Digital Media Studies from the University of Denver and has demonstrated a hands-on, outcomes-driven approach in roles spanning CTO, director, and individual contributor leadership across technology stacks from AWS/Node/React to Java and Angular.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (200)
web-applications10
nx-workspace10
html10
observables10
nodejs10
angular-library10
ui-toolkit10
css10
workspaces10
firebase-storage10
frontend10
strip-tags10
firebase10
nx-workspaces10
yarn-workspaces10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
myspivey/firebaselatency
Dec 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years 11 months
myspivey/nx
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Extensible Dev Tools for Monorepos
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches, 2 issues in 2 years 7 months
monorepodevextensiblemonoreposworkspaces
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.