James Holdren
Senior Engineering Manager at Justworks
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Holdren is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Cincinnati with 13 years of experience building and leading teams that ship distributed systems and cloud-native services. He is hands-on with Go and Kubernetes, having architected microservices, event-driven platforms, and security-focused auth systems for CI and high-SLA environments. At Justworks he progressed from Engineering Manager to Senior Engineering Manager, and his background spans startups and product teams—from mobile and web apps to backend platforms. Known for blending technical depth with team-building, he often pairs pragmatic architecture decisions with coaching to deliver reliable, scalable systems. An applied mathematics background informs his analytical approach to complex distributed problems and operational trade-offs.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Mathematics, High School Diploma Mathematics at Fairfield High SchoolPursuing B.A Applied Mathematics, Pursuing B.A Applied Mathematics at University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OHClass of 2016
French
Github Skills (24)
job-queue10
queue10
kotlin9
android9
android-apps9
stability9
braintree6
programming-language6
quickbooks-online4
sdk4
api3
github3
php3
quickbooks3
github-enterprise3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jdholdren/Mindless
Dec 2012 - May 2014
Contributions:46 commits in 1 year 4 months
mvcphpmvc-frameworkframework
jdholdren/dotfiles
Sep 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
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