James Cowart
Principal Architect at Apogee Travel
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Cowart is a Principal Architect in Seattle with 12 years of experience designing and building web-scale systems and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprise products. He co-founded Teaming to rethink performance management from a team-first perspective and now applies that product and systems thinking at Apogee Travel, where software directly supports charitable giving through hotel bookings. His background spans full-stack architecture, director-level development leadership, developer advocacy, and hands-on work with .NET, databases, and distributed messaging from roles at LeanKit, Planview, and earlier Microsoft-centric engineering teams. James also served as a Staff Sergeant in the Tennessee State Guard in communications roles, bringing disciplined operational leadership and crisis-oriented problem solving to technical programs. He blends pragmatic engineering with product instincts—comfortable both shaping high-level architecture and shipping the code that makes it real. Uncommonly for a technologist, his formal training is in music composition, a creative lens he leverages for systems design and team collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Music: Composition and Arranging, Bachelor of Arts, Music: Composition and Arranging at Belmont UniversityBrookwood High SchoolGithub contributions (3)
dpcowart/ParallaxMvcSlider
Oct 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
dpcowart/WorkflowReportFiles
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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