James Mac William
Senior Software Engineer at Discourse Software
Orange Park, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mac William is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience who excels at turning ambiguous requirements into performant, production-ready systems. He has held leadership and founder roles—CTO, staff engineer, and founder—while driving architecture, CI/CD, and user-facing product work across startups and mid-sized companies. His expertise centers on application and database performance, concurrency and race condition mitigation, and rigorous automated testing. James pairs hands-on coding with operational instincts, having implemented zero-downtime migrations, optimized DB indexing/queries, and reworked deployment pipelines. Based in Orange Park, Florida, he blends a technical background with legal training (J.D.), an unusual combination that sharpens his attention to auditability and exacting requirements.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor (J.D.) Law, Juris Doctor (J.D.) Law at Seton Hall University School of LawInformation Technology (Pre-law concentration) Information Technology, Information Technology (Pre-law concentration) Information Technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (83)
html10
ruby9
mvc9
activerecord9
rails9
ipados8
ruby-on-rails8
mspec8
autocomplete8
ipad8
test-suite8
vscode8
date-parser7
dsl7
migration-tool7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jamesmacwilliam/percona_ar
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 6 months
railsperconarubymigrationactiverecord
jamesmacwilliam/dotfiles
Mar 2019 - Jun 2025
Contributions:6 pushes in 6 years 4 months
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