James Kachel
Senior Software Engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kachel is a senior software engineer with two decades of web technology experience and a 15-year focus in higher education, currently building systems at MIT. He combines full-stack development in PHP, JavaScript, and Python with frameworks like Laravel, Django, and Vue, and pairs that with Unix systems administration and infrastructure automation using Docker and Ansible. His work emphasizes pragmatic integration—designing APIs and connecting disparate systems to extend legacy platforms and deliver measurable value. Having moved between university IT, consulting, and product-focused roles, he brings both institutional context sensitivity and hands-on delivery experience. Based in Memphis, he quietly maintains a presence on federated networks (Mastodon) and favors solving problems by crafting custom, durable tooling rather than one-off fixes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
--, Computer Science, --, Computer Science at University of Memphis
Github Skills (47)
maintenance9
aws8
infrastructure8
hugo-theme8
devops7
hugo7
responsive7
python7
management7
swiftui6
terraform6
swift5
automation5
deploying5
ios4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mitodl/unified-ecommerce
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
An ecommerce system for OL Web applications.
Contributions:2 releases, 82 reviews, 117 PRs in 1 year 3 months
mitodl/ol-django
Jan 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:16 reviews, 43 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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