Summary
James Boyle is a product-focused Senior Software Engineer II with 11 years of experience building ecommerce, billing/payments, procurement, and email marketing systems across startups and scale-ups. He has led full-stack projects from discovery to production—shipping payments features, multicurrency support, and integrations that directly grew customer adoption and prevented service disruptions for high-revenue products. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he’s driven core library redesigns for precise currency conversions and implemented KYC/KYB workflows for payments compliance. An EU/US dual citizen based between Illinois and Portugal, he pairs practical shipping velocity with a documented, collaborative engineering style recognized by an R&D culture award. Notably, he has a track record of creating developer efficiencies—authoring shared libraries and automation that save engineering time while scaling product operations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at University Laboratory High School
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Cum Laude at Bowdoin College
English, Portuguese