James Jessup
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Capital One
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Jessup is a Senior Software Engineering Manager and AWS-certified developer based in New York with a decade of experience building serverless, event-driven microservices and full-stack applications. He has progressed from senior engineer to management at Capital One while simultaneously co-founding and architecting platforms at Decision Science & Training, demonstrating both enterprise leadership and entrepreneurial grit. His technical strengths span AWS Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, GraphQL, Node, and React/Redux, with a focus on delivery-first, scalable architectures. Known for translating complex requirements into production-ready systems, he balances hands-on engineering with team coaching and lifecycle ownership. An uncommon combination of psychology/economics and computer science educations fuels his pragmatic approach to product and people decisions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology & Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Psychology & Economics at Fairfield UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Maryland
English
Github Skills (3)
react4
webpack4
reasonml3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jfjessup/aws-cognito-token-cli
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
jfjessup/material-color-palette-cssnext
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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