James Fallisgaard
Engineering Manager at Ethena
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Fallisgaard is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling full‑stack teams and mission‑critical systems across fintech, HR tech, and SaaS. He combines hands‑on technical leadership—PR reviews, architecture, SOC‑2/GDPR compliance—with people-first management: weekly 1:1s, mentorship, promotion advocacy, and protecting teams from burnout. Notable deliveries include a zero‑downtime migration of 4,000 employees to a custom communications platform that saved millions, and leading a secure whistleblowing product with strict PII controls. He excels at balancing product tradeoffs, resourcing and prioritization to hit aggressive roadmaps while investing in tech debt and SRE improvements. Based in New York, he brings a background spanning data science, embedded/product engineering and even a solar‑startup cofounder perspective that informs pragmatic, cross‑disciplinary solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Materials Science & Engineering; Minor in Physics, Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy, Polymer Solar Cells, Computer Science, Korean Language, B.S. Materials Science & Engineering; Minor in Physics, Entrepreneurship, Renewable Energy, Polymer Solar Cells, Computer Science, Korean Language at University of WashingtonKorean Language Institute, Korean Language Institute at 연세대학교 / Yonsei University
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (3)
jfallisg/nkir
Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:67 commits in 2 months
jfallisg/Customer_Upload
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 comment, 1 issue in 22 days
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