Summary
James Hall is a Staff Software Engineer and technical leader with 12+ years of hands-on engineering and 6+ years of management experience building full-stack, cloud-native products. He has a proven record of scaling teams and delivery—tripling delivery throughput, driving a 36% ARR increase, and cutting costs by $900k—while leading migrations to Kubernetes and GCP. Comfortable moving between product, architecture, and execution, he pairs Ruby on Rails and React expertise with cloud infrastructure skills (AWS ECS/Lambda, Terraform patterns) and data pipeline design. He’s led multi-team integrations through M&A, taught infrastructure and modern web tooling to hundreds of students, and still contributes hands-on code and mentorship. Based in Ann Arbor, he’s seeking technical leadership roles where he can solve complex platform challenges and improve both customer and developer experiences.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Oakland Community College
Columbia College Chicago