Summary
James Defilippo is a backend software engineer with 13 years of experience building robust systems across finance, biotech, defense, and regulatory domains. He has a strong Python background and a track record of owning features end-to-end—from designing APIs and instrument-control interfaces at Vizgen to improving CI/testing and deploying services with AWS, Terraform, and Docker. At Draper he applied algorithmic rigor to flight software and covariance analysis, and at Cambridge Mobile Telematics he combined backend work with data scoring and customer-driven feature delivery. Now at FINRA he brings cross-domain experience and a pragmatic emphasis on code quality, testing, and reliable releases. An affinity for mathematical problem solving (B.S. in Mathematics) underpins his approach to complex system design and testing.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Oakton College
B.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at University of Massachusetts at Lowell
English, Spanish