James Cobban
Cloud Software Developer at Self-Employed
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Cobban is a seasoned cloud software developer with decades of hands-on experience dating back to early UNIX days and a formal background in mathematics and computer science from the University of Toronto. He has worked as a software architect at Nortel and has run his own consulting and development practice since 2000, building and maintaining software infrastructure for customer-facing and administrative services. Comfortable across UNIX, Linux and FOSS ecosystems, he focuses on delivering productivity-enhancing products and services that scale in cloud environments. His longevity in the field reflects deep institutional knowledge of system design, reliability and pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Based in Ontario, Canada, he blends legacy systems expertise with modern cloud-native practices, often favoring durable, simple solutions over unnecessary complexity.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Toronto - University College
English, French, Russian, demotic greek, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, classical greek
Github Skills (63)
family-tree8
contenteditable7
javascript7
genealogy7
storage7
wysiwyg7
text-editing7
tinymce7
editing7
rich-text-editor7
distro7
html6
atom-plugin6
react6
wxwidgets6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jcobban/Genealogy
Jan 2019 - Jun 2022
Genealogical Research Website with Family Tree Management
Contributions:69 commits, 3 PRs, 61 pushes in 3 years 5 months
pythonresearch-websitetree-managementgenealogyfamily-tree
tinymce/tinymce-docs
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
TinyMCE Documentation
Contributions:2 issues in 1 day
tinymceapi-documentationdocumentation-sitetinymce-documentation
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