James Lovejoy
Staff Software Engineer at The Athletic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Lovejoy is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable full‑stack systems, currently driving feature development and backend API reliability at The Athletic in San Francisco. He’s helped grow the product from a niche subscription service to a million-plus subscribers and supported major launches including market expansion, a podcast network, and live news surfaces that sustained engagement during the pandemic. Technically fluent in Ruby on Rails, PHP, GraphQL and React, he ships both product-facing web features and mobile-supporting APIs and has a penchant for automation (yes, a few Slack bots). A UC Berkeley EECS graduate, he combines strong engineering fundamentals with pragmatic product sensibility across frontend and backend domains. Colleagues value him for taking ownership of cross-surface features and turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, scalable systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (10)
html10
activerecord10
mvc10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
httparty6
http4
api3
javascript2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jameslovejoy/apportionment
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 pushes in 3 years
jameslovejoy/breathalyzer
Mar 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
humiditytemperaturebreath
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