James Brooks
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Flexion Inc.
Greater Fayetteville, AR Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Brooks is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with nearly a decade of hands-on experience modernizing mission-critical systems across government and enterprise domains. He leads cross-functional teams to modernize legacy case management and electronic filing platforms using React, Node, Java (Javalin/Quarkus), and cloud services in Azure and AWS, while advocating for user-focused, secure designs. Known for reducing operational friction, he introduced secrets management and automated deployments to improve developer velocity and reliability. His background includes high-throughput data processing (streaming millions of Medicare pricing requests into DynamoDB) and authoring threat models and architecture-as-code with Structurizr. A former Marine Corps ordnance technician, he brings disciplined systems thinking and a practical bias for documentation, testing, and auditability to complex, regulated environments.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at San Diego State University
Github Skills (39)
reactive10
django10
laravel10
java10
kubernetes9
timer9
quarkus9
cloud-native9
react8
pair-programming8
javascript8
ensembles7
mob-programming7
documentation7
azure6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
US-Trustee-Program/Bankruptcy-Oversight-Support-Systems
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:622 reviews, 433 PRs, 2166 pushes in 2 years 2 months
jamesobrooks/ohmyzsh
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,100+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
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