Summary
James Burchell is a senior software engineer and entrepreneurial technologist with seven years of focused experience building cloud-native platforms, data pipelines, and full-stack Ruby on Rails products. He has driven production systems at VMware and Oracle, architecting Go and Python services for usage metering and ETL into large-scale data lakes while modernizing legacy Rails applications and CI/CD practices. A former founder and retail business owner, he pairs product instincts and customer-facing operational experience with a strong advocacy for TDD, pair programming, and developer mentorship. James thrives on greenfield projects and complex migrations—recently delivering AI-enabled features for telehealth billing—and consistently turns ambiguous problems into measurable business outcomes. Based in San Francisco, he blends hands-on engineering with people leadership and a proven track record of shipping reliable, maintainable systems.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Engineering, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) Engineering at Santa Rosa Junior College