James Gorlick
Senior Software Engineering Lead, Vice President, Digital Wealth at BlackRock
Antioch, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Gorlick is a senior software engineering leader with 14 years of experience building backend, platform, and infrastructure systems, currently serving as a Senior Software Engineering Lead and Vice President for Digital Wealth at BlackRock. He has a strong track record across startups and large enterprises—from MySpace and Rovi to Mesosphere and Basho—where he focused on scalable, reliable services and distributed systems. James combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, guiding teams through architecture, operations, and production-grade platform delivery. Based in Antioch, CA, he brings financial-services domain experience from Dimensional Fund Advisors through to enterprise wealth platforms. Notably, his career reflects repeated roles where he transitioned legacy systems into cloud-native and platform-oriented architectures, emphasizing operational resilience. He studied at UC Davis and is known for pragmatic problem-solving that balances long-term technical strategy with immediate business needs.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
UC Davis
Stackoverflow
16reputation
70reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (107)
http-client10
dto10
csv10
high-performance10
json10
serializer10
database-access10
riak10
data-import10
csv-reader10
pcl10
poco10
automapper10
mono10
fluent-interface10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
paegun/metrics-aspectj-gradle-example
Jun 2017 - Nov 2019
Minimal-ish Example of metrics-aspectj for a gradle-build project
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 5 months
ishgradleaspectjbuild-projectgradle-build
paegun/rcc
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
clusterredis-clusterredisconsole
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