James Dabbs
Software Architect at Procore Technologies
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Dabbs is a Software Architect with 14 years of experience building scalable, maintainable systems and leading technical strategy at Procore Technologies. He blends deep hands-on engineering—spanning microservices, cloud infrastructure, and large-scale Elasticsearch operations—with a strong emphasis on developer enablement, having created templates, automation, and practices that reduce cognitive load and saved >$1M/yr in cloud costs. A former lead instructor and co-founder, he’s as comfortable mentoring teams and presenting on refactoring as he is designing resilient architectures and retiring legacy debt. Based in Santa Barbara with an academic background in mathematics, he prefers pragmatic, easy-to-use solutions for hard problems and measures impact by how much he can multiply other engineers’ effectiveness.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of GeorgiaMaster of Science (M.S.), Mathematics, Master of Science (M.S.), Mathematics at Auburn University
Github Skills (154)
mvc10
topological-data-analysis10
ruby10
simple-git10
activerecord10
rack10
ruby-on-rails10
markdown10
html10
database10
rails10
discrete-mathematics10
gitbook10
hierarchical10
topology10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jamesdabbs/brubeck.py
May 2012 - Oct 2012
Contributions:104 commits in 5 months
jamesdabbs/greatbook
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
A sample gradebook app for practicing refactoring
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 5 months
gradebookpracticingrefactoring
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