Summary
Jim O'Flaherty is a seasoned remote backend software engineer and founder with more than two decades of experience architecting enterprise systems and location intelligence platforms. He is currently a Remote Backend Senior Software Engineer at Fetch Package and the Founder/CEO of QA Locate, a PaaS for precision worldwide location data. Jim spent the majority of his career as an Architect Software Engineer at XO Communications (now Verizon), where his location-based fraud detection initiatives and cost-saving programs delivered measurable business impact. He specializes in GIS, spatial and geocoding applications, and has built scalable SOA web services using Java, JEE, Scala and functional programming, working with Oracle and SQL Server, and also led projects in .NET/C# MVC. QA Locate leverages Scala, Akka and AWS to standardize location data for fraud prevention, logistics, IoT, and other mission-critical applications. Based in Irving, Texas, Jim combines hands-on coding with architectural leadership and DevOps expertise to deliver reliable, scalable systems.
5 years of coding experience