James Salamonsen
Database Engineer Administrator
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Salamonsen is a Database Engineer and Administrator based in Seattle with nine years of hands-on experience building and maintaining AWS-hosted Postgres/RDS systems and Django-backed APIs. He balances leadership as VP of Engineering at DashBento with day-to-day technical ownership at Forca App, where he designs database models and ships new data features. A lifelong coder and problem solver, James brings full-stack fluency from freelance work across Python, JavaScript, Swift, and Ruby to practical practices like TDD and Agile development. He also mentors emerging engineers as a lead TA for advanced Python at Code Fellows, translating deep technical concepts into teachable lessons. Known for a "love to fix" mentality, he combines cost-conscious engineering with a knack for pragmatic, low-cost solutions that scale. His background in web application design and early hands-on tech roles gives him a rare blend of customer-facing troubleshooting and systems architecture insight.
9 years of coding experience
Web Application and Design, Web Application and Design at Cascadia CollegeAdvanced Software Development, Full Stack Python, Completed, Advanced Software Development, Full Stack Python, Completed at Code Fellows
Spanish
Github Skills (30)
tipping7
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python3
django3
image-management3
genomics3
streaming3
bioinformatics3
waterfall2
echo2
testing2
video-streaming2
data-structures2
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Woojgh/pyramid-learning-journal
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:33 PRs, 58 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
journalmockup
Woojgh/data-structure
Jun 2017 - Dec 2019
Implementation of various data structures.
Contributions:26 PRs, 57 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 6 months
data-structurescpp
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