James He
Senior Software Engineer at AssemblyAI
Aurora, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJames He is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building backend systems and shipping product-focused features at AI startup AssemblyAI. He progressed from Jr. Backend Engineer to Senior Engineer within the same company, demonstrating rapid growth in responsibilities around scalable APIs, cloud deployment, and team collaboration. A self-taught developer with a formal background in Finance and Information Systems from Indiana University Kelley, he combines business-minded product sense with practical engineering skills. His early work leading small teams and shipping a React Native app with C# .NET APIs shows he is comfortable across stacks and in production operations on AWS. Based in Aurora, Illinois, James prefers building “cool things that do good,” bringing a pragmatic, continuous-learning approach to problem solving. He is quietly effective at turning startup constraints into reliable, maintainable software.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Finance and Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Finance and Information Systems at Indiana University - Kelley School of BusinessHigh School High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Libertyville High School
English, Chinese, French
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Github Skills (21)
assemblyai10
speech-to-text9
transcription9
python8
web-frontend8
nextjs8
audio8
asr8
nodejs8
async7
ai7
llm6
javascript6
explore3
backend3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Model-UN/cimun-web
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Web front-end for a political education conference.
Contributions:60 reviews, 204 commits, 86 PRs in 1 year 6 months
web-frontendnextjs
Model-UN/mundo-api
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
MUNDO back-end conference logistics data access API
Contributions:22 PRs, 67 pushes, 12 branches in 5 months
backend
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