James Mcmath
Senior Engineering Manager - Backend at Quanata
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Mcmath is a Senior Engineering Manager in California with 11 years of experience building and scaling backend systems, distributed services, and ML-driven features at startups. Currently leading large backend teams at Quanata, he architects and operationalizes policy management, financial ledger, claims handling, and billing systems while driving roadmaps, standards, and developer happiness. He progressed from senior engineer to staff and into management at the same company, giving him deep hands-on knowledge of the codebases he now owns and the practical empathy to mentor engineers across levels. Earlier roles span machine learning, data engineering, and product-facing safety features at companies like Tophatter and Remind, plus founder experience building a microservices-based crowdfunding platform. Comfortable scoping large technical initiatives and formalizing hiring and onboarding processes, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with structured engineering leadership. Fluent in Chinese and Korean studies, he brings an uncommon cross-cultural perspective to global product and team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Korean Language and Literature, Korean Language and Literature at Seoul National UniversityChinese Language and Literature, Chinese Language and Literature at Capital Normal UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Chinese Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Chinese Language and Literature at Reed College
English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese
Github Skills (54)
ava10
async9
testing9
test-framework9
unit-testing9
test-runner9
runner9
tdd9
assert9
nodejs9
cli9
stream9
concurrency8
unicorns8
javascript8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mcmathja/curlyq
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Efficient and reliable background processing for Go
Contributions:7 releases, 46 commits, 11 PRs in 3 months
golangredistask-queuereliablejob-queue
mcmathja/narly
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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