James Johnson
Software Developer at Global Innovations Bank
Merrimac, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Johnson is a seasoned software developer with 13 years of experience specializing in back-end web development, cloud infrastructure, and payments integration. He has driven major modernization efforts at Linden Lab—migrating a 15+-year-old billing system to Tilia, refactoring legacy scripts into Django apps, and helping lead an AWS lift that saved the company $35M. Proficient in Python, Django, Golang, and AWS automation, he blends hands-on coding with infrastructure work, from CloudFormation stacks to CI/CD pipelines. James excels at turning brittle, undocumented systems into maintainable, GUI-driven tools that improve operational efficiency. Now at Global Innovations Bank, he continues applying that mix of platform, tooling, and payments expertise to enterprise systems. A WPI computer science graduate, he brings a practical engineering mindset and a track record of measurable cost and reliability improvements.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (21)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
secondlife-3p/github-action-get-previous-tag
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
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Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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secondlife/3p-openjpeg
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:13 pushes in 2 months
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