James Booth
Chief Technology Officer at MentorCruise
Nashville Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorJames Booth is a seasoned software engineering leader and CTO with 11 years of documented senior experience driving cloud-native, secure platforms for regulated fintech and SaaS companies. He led a ground-up rebuild of a multi-tenant banking platform at Attune, cutting onboarding from weeks to minutes while owning PostgreSQL architecture, AWS DevOps, and SOC compliance. Previously he scaled infrastructure and self-service deployment patterns at FloQast and executed zero-downtime migrations to Kubernetes at Tesorio, consistently balancing hands-on architecture with people leadership across global teams. A founder of an AI-first decision-analysis startup and a top-rated MentorCruise mentor, he combines product-minded engineering with a focus on operational rigor and hiring/process design. Colleagues rely on him to align security, compliance, and delivery without slowing innovation—an attribute reflected in repeated cross-functional leadership roles and a talent for turning messy legacy stacks into maintainable platforms. Based in Nashville, he brings an unusual mix of long-term platform craftsmanship and practical startup speed.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (58)
obsidian9
aws8
typescript8
graph8
terraform8
loader8
cassandra-cql8
microsoft7
electron7
webpack-loader7
jenkins-plugin7
vscode-extension7
vscode7
editor7
terraform-module7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JEBoothjr/rpi_node
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 month
raspberry-pinodejsnode-applicationraspberry
JEBoothjr/plantuml-diagramming
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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