James Coghlan is a pragmatic software engineering leader with 11 years at J.P. Morgan, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering and previously a senior Java lead and solutions architect. He specializes in Java, APIs, distributed systems and AWS, holding an AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification and driving platform enablement and firm‑wide training for hundreds of engineers. James blends hands‑on development (comfortable in Go and Python) with product thinking—recently building a demand‑management tool for a public‑cloud control plane and acting as primary solutions architect for a major line of business. He’s also delivered creative automation work, including AWS DeepRacer 3D render tooling that kept a global league running through COVID, and brings cross-cultural perspective from three years teaching English in Japan and fluency in Portuguese.
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