Chase James
Full Stack Engineer at Lexmark
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChase James is a Full Stack Engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building and leading product-focused engineering teams across Ruby, Node.js, Erlang, and front-end stacks. Currently at Lexmark, he has a track record of designing scalable backends and shipping cross-team features—previous roles include leading a CRM team, architecting SMS and email campaign systems, and bootstrapping developer environments with Docker and headless Chrome. He contributes to open-source Erlang tooling (improving relx release scripts and adding Windows support), reflecting a practical DevOps mindset and attention to portability. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and as a technical lead, he pairs code-level contributions with project design and mentoring. Based in Lexington, KY, he blends long-term operational experience (from PerconaDB migrations to Erlang service packaging) with a knack for pragmatic solutions to cross-platform deployment challenges.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate Degree Network Administration, Associate Degree Network Administration at Kentucky Advanced Technology InstituteBachelor of Science Applied Technology, Bachelor of Science Applied Technology at Western Kentucky University
Github Skills (12)
sh10
release-management10
script10
shell10
erlang10
devops10
scripting10
build-automation10
template-engine9
templater9
template-tags9
windows9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
erlware/relx
Feb 2014 - May 2014
Sane, simple release creation for Erlang
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 commits, 5 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chase focused on improving the release process and the build scripts for the Erlang project. They implemented and refined templates for generating release scripts, including `bin`, `extended_bin`, and `vm_args`. They added Windows support, demonstrating their understanding of different operating system environments. Furthermore, the user addressed potential issues with spaces in directory paths and made changes to improve the portability and robustness of the release scripts.
gleamerlangbeamfactorcreation
nuex/erl_gm
Sep 2011 - Nov 2020
An Erlang GraphicsMagick wrapper
Contributions:17 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 years 2 months
graphicsmagickerlang
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