James Groat
Software Architect, Owner at Groat Software LLC
Gilbert, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Groat is a seasoned software architect and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience designing and delivering web, distributed, and mobile systems through his firm Groat Software LLC and prior roles at Wintellect and Spectria. He leads small, high-performing teams to build scalable, client-focused solutions—from e-commerce billing and tax-driven workflows to large distributed systems for clients like Schlumberger and Scientific Games. Hands-on across the stack, he has practical front-end experience contributing fixes to notable open-source projects like famous-angular to improve animation promise behavior. Based in Gilbert, Arizona, he pairs technical depth with long-term client relationships and a management background from Pepperdine, often surfacing subtle UX and engineering gaps before they become problems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management, Bachelor's degree Management at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
f10
front-end-development10
animation10
angularjs10
es6-promise10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Famous/famous-angular
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Bring structure to your Famo.us apps with the power of AngularJS. Famo.us/Angular integrates seamlessly with existing Angular and Famo.us apps.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on fixing an issue related to promises within the animation handling logic of the famous-angular library. Their commits addressed the return value of the `animate` function, ensuring it returned a promise. They also made changes in both the source code and the distribution files to reflect these adjustments to the animation behavior, specifically within the context of Angular's animation system.
angularangularjs
jamesgroat/dockerfile
Jan 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:29 pushes in 8 years 11 months
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