James Perreault
Software Development Lead at Terakeet
Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJames Perreault is a Software Development Lead with 12 years of experience building scalable, secure web systems and production AWS infrastructure. He combines deep Ruby expertise with Python data engineering skills to deliver reliable services using VPC, EC2, RDS, and ElastiCache while championing coding standards and observability across the SDLC. At Terakeet he progressed from engineer to lead, architecting cloud migrations, internal tooling, and a cross-functional interface between Product, PM, and Engineering to streamline delivery. He mentors and hires technical talent, and was selected for a strategic taskforce advising executive leadership on culture and team composition. Based in Traverse City, MI, he pairs hands-on development with an emphasis on measurable quality and collaborative processes. An often-overlooked strength is his mix of client-facing communication and infrastructure ops experience, which helps translate business needs into robust, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Kalamazoo Valley Community CollegePolitical Science and Government, Political Science and Government at Western Michigan University
English
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Github Skills (50)
factories10
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
rubygems9
testing9
test-data9
test-kitchen9
coercion9
capybara9
dry-rb9
thoughtbot8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jtperreault/political_ties
Dec 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:46 commits, 18 PRs, 43 pushes in 3 years 7 months
jtperreault/goat_tower
Oct 2015 - Jun 2024
A mini-game via REST API, designed to be consumed/played via IRC bot.
Contributions:4 PRs, 22 pushes, 11 branches in 8 years 9 months
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