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.
8 years of coding experience
6 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 (36)
reactive10
django10
laravel10
java10
kubernetes9
cloud-native9
quarkus8
timer8
javascript7
ensembles7
mob-programming7
react7
extreme-programming6
pair-programming6
documentation5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jamesobrooks/gatsby-theme-forty
Nov 2021 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes in 4 years 2 months
US-Trustee-Program/Bankruptcy-Oversight-Support-Systems
Jan 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:840 reviews, 551 PRs, 2768 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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