James Beams
Software Engineer Senior Manager at Scoreboard Buzz
Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJames Beams is a seasoned software engineering leader with 9 years of experience building full-stack web platforms and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprise organizations. Currently a Senior Manager at Allstate and co-founder of Scoreboard Buzz, he blends hands-on expertise in JavaScript ecosystems (React/Redux, AngularJS, Node) with cloud-native practices using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and GitLab CI/CD. James has repeatedly stepped into CTO roles for healthcare-focused ventures, translating product vision into maintainable, reusable architectures that leverage Postgres/PostGIS and modern RESTful services. He is comfortable shipping across the stack—from performant front-end UX to scalable backend services—and has a history of turning prototypes into production systems. Based in the Toledo area, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic engineering approach, often favoring clean, testable code and infrastructure that eases operational burden. An uncommon thread in his career is the balance of long-term product co-founding (Scoreboard Buzz, T2D-focused startup) alongside corporate leadership, giving him both startup agility and enterprise delivery discipline.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Arkansas
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
quilt8
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fabric7
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Beamsy/PAIRR
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:86 commits, 13 PRs, 71 pushes in 6 months
Beamsy/BookZap
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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