James Earley
Senior Software Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJames Earley is a Senior Software Engineer based in Minneapolis with nine years of experience building scalable back-end systems, currently focused on property management platforms at Target. He brings deep payments and invoicing expertise from Amazon, where he led multi-team efforts to launch B2G and VAT consolidation features that unlocked millions in new revenue and handled dramatic traffic growth. Comfortable across Java/Spring, AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, EC2, CloudFormation/CDK), and gRPC-style microservices, he also owned testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and on-call reliability. James has a track record of translating complex cross-org requirements into executable designs and delegating workstreams to deliver pilots and global rollouts. Early work includes interactive scientific visualizations in Python, showing a curiosity for data-driven UIs beyond core backend work. He is practical, delivery-oriented, and has repeatedly taken ownership of high-impact payment and checkout features that moved the needle at scale.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
New Richmond High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Sciences, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
sports-data8
espn7
api7
wordpress6
python-requests6
vagrant5
programming-tools4
lifestyle3
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
earlejam/effective-java-notes
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
earlejam/ffl-analyzer
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:39 commits, 41 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 2 months
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