James Cori
Senior Software Developer at Vendori
Southington, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolJames Cori is a Senior Software Developer with nine years of focused experience building serverless and microservice architectures, currently accelerating product delivery at Vendori with a React/NestJS/AWS stack. He previously led platform development at Pearpop, shipping a production-grade REST API for Flutter web and mobile, and has a strong background modernizing platforms with event-driven AWS microservices at Topcoder. An entrepreneur at heart, James founded a six-figure bar trivia business and built its custom NodeJS/React infrastructure to manage thousands of weekly events, demonstrating both technical depth and operational scaling. He balances pragmatic architecture with a willingness to "bend the rules" when needed, and is actively exploring AI, GraphQL, and web3 technologies to broaden his toolset. Based in Southington, CT, he blends hands-on coding, platform strategy, and product collaboration to move teams from concept to v1 in tight timelines.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BDIC - Web Development, BS, BDIC - Web Development at University of Massachusetts AmherstBlue Mountain High School
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Github Skills (75)
informix10
elasticsearch10
api10
dynamodb10
processor10
nodejs10
docker10
aws10
frontend10
node-api9
microservices9
apache-kafka9
react8
data-api8
kafka8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
topcoder-platform/legacy-challenge-migration-script
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
Migrates Challenges, Resources, and Resource Roles from Informix to DynamoDB
Contributions:11 releases, 7 reviews, 34 PRs in 1 year 10 months
informixaws-dynamodbdynamodbaws
topcoderinc/Topcoder-StarterPack_BluemixNode
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Quick start boilerplate for a Node API Deployable to Bluemix
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 months
node-apibluemixbluemix-deploymentnodejs
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