James Macon
Director Of Engineering at Temper And Forge
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Macon is a Director of Engineering based in Portland, Maine with a decade of hands-on experience shipping web platforms and leading engineering teams. He combines front-end expertise in Vue.js, JavaScript, and Sass with deep WordPress and PHP/SQL integration experience, plus practical SEO know-how that helps products perform in the wild. Previously a technical architect and lead web developer, he’s comfortable bridging design-minded thinking (a background in cinematography/visual art) with scalable engineering and integrations like Salesforce/CS-Cart. James has moved from support and ops roles into leadership, which gives him a pragmatic focus on developer workflows, customer-facing reliability, and mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Emerson College
Github Skills (36)
git10
gridsome10
elasticpress9
github9
wordpress9
wordpress-plugin9
vue9
nodejs9
jamstack9
fluent-interface9
graphql9
php8
woocommerce8
static-site-generator8
ecommerce8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jamacon36/jtmacon.com
Nov 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
thinkshout/thinkwp-starter-theme
Sep 2021 - Jun 2024
Forked for ThinkShout from Timber: a dead-simple WordPress theme that you can build anything from
Contributions:5 reviews, 29 PRs, 118 pushes in 2 years 8 months
wordpress-themes
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