James Polk
Software Engineer at Neptune Retail Solutions
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJames Polk is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 10 years of experience building and modernizing high-traffic web and desktop applications for enterprise and government clients. He has a track record of reducing duplication and complexity—cutting data propagation by 95% through integrations with Salesforce and HR systems and trimming repeated logic by 70% via refactoring. James has architected and scaled a retail platform serving millions of international users, improved mobile sales tenfold, and delivered GDPR/CCPA-compliant APIs while ensuring FEDRAMP-level data integrity for U.S. government projects. Comfortable across PHP, C#, Java, Go and database-driven systems, he bridges technical and customer-facing roles to deliver on-time, budget-conscious solutions. A former Air Force communications specialist with training in Korean linguistics, he brings disciplined operations experience and cross-cultural communication skills to complex, regulated environments.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Korean Linguistics, Certificate, Korean Linguistics at Defense Language InstituteAssociate of Science (AS), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.75, Associate of Science (AS), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.75 at Forsyth Technical Community CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.61, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.61 at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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BoldGrid/sprout-invoices-gravity-forms
Aug 2018 - Jul 2024
Sprout Invoices + Gravity Forms
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years
invoicesgravitysproutgravity-forms
methos237/gametime
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 28 days
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