James Richards
Software Engineering Instructor at Pursuit
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Richards is a software engineering instructor and full-stack developer with a decade of experience turning collaborative teams into effective builders of production web applications. He teaches and mentors across JavaScript, React, Node, Express, and databases (Mongo/Postgres), having created curricula, video lessons, and DEI initiatives at bootcamps including App Academy and Pursuit. James pairs hands-on engineering (MERN, REST APIs, AWS Lambda prototypes) with product and UX sensibilities from earlier product and UI/UX roles, enabling him to guide students from concept to deployable projects. He also consults and freelances on web rebuilds, donation platforms, and recruiting tools, and brings uncommon depth in instructional design—creating closed-captioned materials and training instructors in adult-learning (andragogical) methods. Based in the NYC metro area, he blends classroom leadership with practical startup and ops experience dating back to datacenter and NOC roles.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Product and Design, Product and Design at Startup InstituteLiberal Arts major, Liberal Arts major at Catawba CollegeA.A.S (Associate of Applied Science Degree), Computer Information Systems, 4.0 GPA, A.A.S (Associate of Applied Science Degree), Computer Information Systems, 4.0 GPA at SUNY-WCCFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Velocity360MCSE, MCSA, MCP Certifications, CompTia A+, Computer Networking, MCSE, MCSA, MCP Certifications, CompTia A+, Computer Networking at New Horizons Computer Learning Centers
French, German
Github Skills (19)
slack-bot9
slack6
themoviedb-api6
expressjs5
api3
rest3
rest-api3
todomvc3
react3
firebase3
ticker3
redux3
nodejs3
realtime2
dashboard2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jdrichardsappacad/AppAcademy-Online-Onboarding-Instruction-Guide
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:89 commits in 1 month
dsegovia90/kronostimezoner
Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
This app or bot, will permit a remote slack group arrange a meeting at a certain local time, and communicate the local time of other participants to avoid confusion and daylight saving issues.
Contributions:139 commits, 64 PRs, 111 pushes in 2 years 3 months
arrangecommunicatebotslack-botparticipants
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