Summary
James Reinlein is a Senior Software Engineer at Etsy with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications using JavaScript (React, Redux, TypeScript, ES6), Java, PHP, Scala, and Python. He progressed from SDE intern to senior roles at Amazon and Etsy, demonstrating steady growth in large-scale, production-focused engineering environments. Based in New York and natively bilingual in French and English, he brings strong cross-cultural communication to distributed teams and stakeholder interactions. James combines front-end craftsmanship with backend and systems thinking, regularly shipping performant, maintainable code for consumer-facing platforms. His background includes application development and QA at Canadian Heritage and hands-on troubleshooting experience from an early technical-sales role, reflecting both product empathy and operational rigor. Colleagues value him for bridging practical implementation details with long-term architectural considerations.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Health Sciences, Health Sciences at Vanier College
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Ottawa