James Quinlan
Founding Engineer at Trove Work
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Quinlan is a frontend-leaning founding engineer with 11 years of software engineering experience building modern web applications from startup MVPs to scale-ready products. Based in Richmond, VA, he has progressed from junior roles into senior engineering at companies like Yesware, Robin, and Postscript before helping launch Trove Work as a founding engineer. He specializes in rich, responsive front-end experiences and APIs, with hands-on history in frameworks such as Vue and Angular and practical backend work with Django. Known for pairing design-minded craftsmanship (he holds a BFA in Photography) with pragmatic engineering, he often champions developer tooling and build processes that speed delivery. Colleagues rely on him to translate product visions into polished UIs and maintainable codebases while keeping an eye for UX detail that isn’t obvious from his title alone.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Photography at Virginia Commonwealth University
Spanish
Github Skills (77)
gcal10
outlook10
calendar-widget10
browser9
inline-styles9
react9
scss-variables9
styles8
nextjs8
typescript8
donut7
styled-components7
editor7
javascript7
authentication7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jcquinlan/rose-and-thorn
Aug 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
jcquinlan/leerly
Oct 2020 - Jun 2022
lee más, punk
Contributions:228 commits, 118 PRs, 170 pushes in 1 year 7 months
leepunk
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