Summary
James Katic is a seasoned software architect and consultant with over 20 years of experience designing and shipping scalable backend services and rich web/desktop UIs, primarily across the Microsoft and JavaScript ecosystems. He regularly leads migrations and refactors—modernizing legacy .NET systems to cloud-native architectures, introducing NX workspaces, and improving scalability with Redis, Kubernetes, and cloud CI/CD. His hands-on breadth spans payments and PCI-compliant systems, search and streaming technologies like ElasticSearch and Kafka, and front-end frameworks including Angular and React with strong testing discipline. As an independent owner/consultant he frequently mentors teams, conducts code reviews, and documents systems for operational handoff, showing a bias for pragmatic, maintainable solutions. Based in Gilbert, Arizona, he combines enterprise-scale experience from firms like IGN and GameFly with nimble contracting work for startups and vendors, and often moves deployments and pipelines from on-prem tooling to GitHub Actions and cloud platforms.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
AS Computer Science, AS Computer Science at Cabrillo College