James Long
Director at Squarespace
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Long is a seasoned software leader with 15+ years building and scaling engineering teams and platforms, currently serving as Director at Squarespace in Orlando. A lifelong student of software who started on a Commodore and wrote classroom GUIs in BASIC, he blends deep hands-on engineering (architecture, platform and microservices) with pragmatic people leadership and developer ergonomics. He led platform and PaaS innovations at iHeartMedia that earned patents, drove large CMS and media pipelines, and excels at managing remote, manager-of-managers organizations. James prioritizes team productivity, developer kindness, and work-life balance while still diving into code and architecture when it matters. An early adopter of container-based platforms and bespoke orchestration, he brings a rare mix of historical perspective and practical modern engineering judgment.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Partial Computer Science, Partial Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (200)
web-performance10
javascript10
web-developer10
angular10
typescript10
nodejs10
magickwand10
typechecker10
web-framework10
react10
type-check9
validation9
systemjs9
superset9
stripe-api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LongTailLabs/license-server
Feb 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year 5 months
xealot/pyfasts3
Mar 2011 - Mar 2011
Contributions:11 commits in 1 day
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