James Churchill
Principal Engineer at Novillus
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Churchill is a Principal Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 14 years of hands-on experience building full‑stack web applications and leading developer education programs. He blends product-focused engineering—demonstrated by full‑stack work like an Express/MongoDB/Angular to‑do app—with a deep commitment to mentoring, having created curricula and run cohorts at Treehouse, App Academy, and Dev10. As a technical presenter and co‑organizer of the Portland TypeScript meetup, he’s a visible community builder who has given talks across multiple states. Comfortable shifting between individual contributor and instructional leadership roles, he excels at turning complex concepts into teachable, production-ready solutions and often pairs practical coding with thoughtful pedagogy. An early adopter of TypeScript and advocate for developer growth, he brings both classroom discipline and real-world delivery experience to engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Music, Associate’s Degree, Music at Mt. Hood Community College
English
Github Skills (14)
nodejs10
javascript10
expressjs10
mongodb10
angularjs10
mongodb-database10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
html8
webpack8
webpacker8
css7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
treehouse-projects/mean-todo
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 18 commits, 17 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to building a full-stack to-do application. Their work involved setting up an Express.js backend, implementing API routes for handling to-do items (including GET, POST, PUT), and integrating a MongoDB database for data persistence. They also updated the Angular front-end to consume data from the created API and added a navigation bar with the integration of ngInclude.
treehouse-projects/intro-to-graphql
Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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