James Anselm
Software Engineer at Amazon
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJames Anselm is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating scalable business systems across startups and large enterprises, currently focused on distributed cloud services at Amazon in Toronto. He has taken products from mockup to hundreds of thousands of users and led technical ownership of critical-path systems used to coordinate migrations and serve personalized customer experiences at massive scale. His work spans front-end React/TypeScript, Java microservices, Python data pipelines, and large-scale AWS architectures (Lambda, Kinesis, Glue, DynamoDB, OpenSearch), with measurable wins like 39x speedups for Bedrock integrations and platforms processing up to billions of rows. James routinely designs parallelizable implementation plans for small teams, mentors engineers (several promoted), and serves as a high-volume interviewer and production change bar raiser. He pairs an engineering pedigree in mechatronics with an MS in Computer Science, bringing hands-on systems thinking from embedded and automation roots to cloud-native data platforms. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic re-architecting of brittle CXs and for turning complex cross-org coordination into actionable, testable roadmaps.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBASc Honors Mechatronics Engineering, BASc Honors Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (8)
git6
active-directory6
typescript6
javascript6
sql6
visual-studio6
linkedin-api6
tfs6
Github contributions (4)
James-Anselm/James-Anselm.github.io
Sep 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:6 pushes in 5 years 1 month
James-Anselm/wagonnag
Nov 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:47 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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