James Bailey
Lead Software Engineer at loanDepot
Cypress, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Bailey is a hands-on lead software engineer and architect with 11+ years of experience building scalable, high-availability platforms that turn large-scale data into business insight. Recruited repeatedly by CEOs to design next-generation systems, he has driven acquisitions and major product scalability—most notably positioning Teletrac for acquisition by Danaher and architecting Veritone’s cognitive media platform. He blends deep technical leadership with day-to-day coding, having founded consultancies and led engineering teams that cut time-to-feature delivery by 50–75% through streamlined agile processes and mentoring. His work spans cloud and private architectures, advanced ETL for billions of data points, and high-throughput event processing (25M events/day), showing a practical focus on measurable business outcomes. Based in Cypress, CA, he still prefers a hands-on role even in senior positions, delivering both architecture and implementation across startups and enterprise environments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical direction that balances innovation, cost control, and rapid delivery.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Corona High SchoolBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at California State University, Fresno
English
Github Skills (79)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
codisms/vim-config
Feb 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 104 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 1 month
codisms/env-config
Oct 2018 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 68 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
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