Summary
James Byrd is a pragmatic lead software engineer with nine years of formal experience and a long track record building e-commerce platforms, shopping carts, and SEO-focused web systems. He blends deep SQL and database design skills (Postgres, MySQL, Mongo) with a .NET-heavy stack (C#, WPF, MVC, ASP) and practical familiarity with containers and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes. Throughout roles from hands-on developer to Software Architect and Director of IT, he has repeatedly owned end-to-end delivery and solved thorny integration and performance challenges for companies including Little Caesars and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. James pairs coding chops with project management discipline and a knack for turning business requirements into measurable technical outcomes. He’s comfortable evolving legacy systems while incrementally introducing modern tooling (Go, ReactJS, Rancher, CI/CD) to improve reliability and deployment cadence. Based in Chickamauga, GA, he brings a results-oriented leadership style grounded in real-world operational experience.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of West Georgia