James Kern
Senior Software Engineer at Costco Travel
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kern is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering high-performance full-stack systems. He specializes in Java back-end development, Spring Boot microservices, and integrating Angular/TypeScript front-ends, with deep experience modernizing telecom and enterprise platforms. James has led cross-functional teams to improve uptime, reduce deployment times, and cut operational costs—achieving results like five-nines availability and significant reductions in latency and technical debt. A 20+ year veteran sysadmin and open-source/cloud advocate, he brings uncommon operational rigor to software architecture and CI/CD practices. He also mentors engineers in TDD, security, and clean coding, and kept his skills sharp during a sabbatical through competitive coding on HackerRank.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (5)
virtualmin10
webmin8
mercurial5
git-addons4
git2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
imonte/auth
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:475 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
montgomerykern/montgomerykern.github.io
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:407 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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