James Rapp
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Rapp is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Chicago with nine years of experience leading architecture and delivery across startups and big tech. He combines hands-on implementation with strategic direction, having guided monolith-to-microservice migrations, built platform automation, and led marketplace product architecture at Uber and Airbnb. Known for cross-functional collaboration, he establishes support and monitoring practices (DataDog, IAM, CI/CD) and created processes like architecture review boards and developer-friendly scaffolding to accelerate teams. Comfortable scoping and executing high-priority initiatives end-to-end, he blends product intuition with deep platform engineering expertise. An engineer who still ships code, he uniquely pairs executive-level communication with day-to-day technical ownership.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. - Computer Science Minor in Mathematics, B.S. - Computer Science Minor in Mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
theobsessedcoder/sample-code
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Sample code for the obsessedcoder.com blog
Contributions:5 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
jrrapp2/react-blog
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
sprintsprint-project
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