James Read
Staff Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolJames Read is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of focused software development experience and a long history of delivering reliable, high-impact solutions across commercial and defense contexts. He excels at translating complex business requirements into implementable plans, leading UI refreshes, performance optimizations (including a 60% page load reduction), and increasing automated test coverage. Comfortable at all stages of the lifecycle, James combines hands-on coding with program-level coordination—having grown a custom software business into an acquisition and later led project teams for national sporting events. Based in Salt Lake City, he pairs an engineer’s attention to technical debt with a pragmatic ability to communicate strategy from junior developers to C-level stakeholders. An ex-Attack Helicopter Company Commander, he brings disciplined leadership and operational thinking to large, high-pressure engineering initiatives.
8 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Informations Systems, BS, Computer Informations Systems at Northern Michigan University
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Github contributions (5)
macread/search-shindig
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes in 2 months
macread/scrubber
Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:25 pushes in 10 months
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