James Kip
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJames Kip is a pragmatic SDET and software engineer based in Austin with nine years of cross-functional experience building reliable testing pipelines and shipping quality products. He’s strong in TypeScript and CI/CD, with a background spanning startups and product teams—most recently contributing to Vetspire after a hands-on SDET role at Bolt. James founded Texas Vaccine Updates, a Slack community that scaled to 50k+ users by automating appointment alerts, demonstrating his ability to turn technical solutions into high-impact user services. Comfortable with both manual and automated testing, he pairs a tester’s attention to detail with engineer-level coding skills and a knack for simplifying complex workflows. Known as a “professional overthinker,” he brings curiosity and a continuous-improvement mindset to cross-team collaboration and product quality.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Hack ReactorComputer Programming, Computer Programming at San Antonio College
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Github Skills (97)
e2e-testing10
slack-bot10
testing10
chromeless10
automation10
declarative10
linting10
web-testing10
javascript10
webdriver10
txt10
chromium10
webkit10
browser-automation10
firefox10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jameskip/represent
Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
A front end to ProPublica's congress API.
Contributions:5 PRs, 52 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
apicongressfront-endpropublica
jameskip/made-in-magic
Jun 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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