James Raines
Principal Software Engineer at ETX Upstream
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Raines is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with nine years of experience building geospatial and full‑stack applications that support the renewable energy transition and disaster risk analysis. He combines hands-on frontend work in React and Angular with backend APIs in Django and Node/.NET, and deep GIS expertise using PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Leaflet, and spatial modeling in Python and R. His career spans government and utility sectors—FEMA, USGS, National Park Service, and Duke Energy—where he architected hazard modeling platforms, open-source risk libraries, and large-scale map tooling. James also brings product and operational perspective from founding an AV company and managing logistics at Microsoft, which helps him translate complex scientific requirements into production software. Known for bridging research and engineering, he’s comfortable leading teams, designing GIS data models, and shipping pragmatic tools that turn spatial science into decision-ready systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Geospatial Science, Master's degree Geospatial Science at University of Colorado DenverBA in Geography Geographic Information Systems and Sustainability, BA in Geography Geographic Information Systems and Sustainability at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (5)
sarif8
aem7
risk-assessment7
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lorax521/lorax521.github.io
Feb 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
nhrap-dev/hazus-export-utility
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:59 PRs, 94 pushes, 52 branches in 5 months
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