James Mehorter
Principal Software Engineer at Life Safety Inspection Vault
Lincolnville, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolJames Mehorter is a Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience building high-performance subscription platforms, backend services, and scalable publishing systems. He blends hands-on coding (Kotlin, Spring Boot, PHP/Laravel, React/TypeScript) with technical leadership, mentoring engineers and establishing testing and CI/CD practices that dramatically reduced bugs and enabled zero-downtime migrations. At Penske Media he architected systems protecting $20M+ in annual revenue, built APIs serving 65M+ monthly requests, and eliminated hundreds of redundant components via a polymorphic React system. He applies AI-augmented development pragmatically to unblock teams and accelerate complex frontend work, and now focuses on fire-safety compliance platforms at Life Safety Inspection Vault. Known for tackling high-stakes migrations and for creating reusable patterns, he pairs deep implementation fluency with an emphasis on developer productivity and operational reliability.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA New Media, BA New Media at University of Maine
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wordpress
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Github Skills (157)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jamesmehorter/device-theme-switcher
Dec 2011 - Sep 2019
Contributions:221 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 7 years 10 months
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jamesmehorter/website-backup
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 8 days
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