James Patton is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems and leading teams across mobility and hardware-focused companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently on the Meraki Switch Dashboard team at Cisco Meraki, he brings deep practical experience scaling backend services from his technical lead roles at Ridepanda and Spin and senior engineering stints at Bird, Scoot, and The RealReal. He is pragmatic about shipping reliable, user-focused software and has a track record of taking ownership of APIs, data pipelines, and deployment workflows. Early work building hydrology data tools and multi-DB backends shows his comfort with both scientific data problems and production systems. Skilled in mentoring and technical leadership, he combines hands-on coding with an eye for operational robustness and product impact.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Utah State University
Contributions:20 PRs, 18 pushes, 13 branches in 14 days
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James Patton - Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki