James Huston
Senior Software Engineer at Hard Rock International
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Huston is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and hardening enterprise systems across hospitality, gaming, aviation, and healthcare industries. He specializes in C#, .NET MVC, services architecture, and deployment automation, with hands-on experience in SQL/NoSQL databases, AWS/Azure provisioning, and build pipelines. At companies from EA to Hard Rock International he has driven integrations with payment vendors, Jira automation, and large-scale reconciliations while improving test coverage and reliability. A continuous learner who experiments with new technologies, he also contributed test improvements to the widely used jQuery project, tightening unit assertions to prevent regressions. Based in Florida, he combines deep practical knowledge of legacy modernization and caching strategies with a persistent focus on quality and operational reliability.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
javascript10
jquery10
test-automation10
ajax6
css6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jquery/jquery
Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
jQuery JavaScript Library
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the quality and reliability of the jQuery library through the addition of unit tests. They modified existing test files (css.js, effects.js, event.js, traversing.js, manipulation.js, ajax.js, core.js) to enforce the use of `expect` statements within the test suites. This ensures that the tests adequately verify expected behaviors and prevent regressions in the library's functionality, improving the test coverage for the jQuery library.
javascript-libraryjquery-javascriptjqueryjavascriptjquery-ui
araxiaonline/TrinityCore
Jan 2024 - Jan 2025
TrinityCore Open Source MMO Framework (master = 10.2.0.52649, 3.3.5 = 3.3.5a.12340, wotlk_classic = 3.4.3.52237)
Contributions:2 releases, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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