James Sarne
Senior Engineering Manager at Sarne Consulting LLC
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorJames Sarne is a senior engineering manager with 17 years of hands-on experience and over two decades in the software industry, currently leading teams at Mineral while running an independent consulting practice. He combines product-minded leadership, disciplined processes, and people-first management to guide teams from startup to enterprise scale, routinely switching between strategic roadmap decisions and detailed code reviews. His background spans director and VP roles across GovDelivery, Granicus, and SocialChorus, giving him deep expertise in building reliable platforms and shipping well-tested features. Known for balancing pragmatism with craft, he emphasizes operational excellence and mentorship, helping engineers grow while delivering measurable business outcomes. Based in the Portland metro area, he brings a rare mix of consultancy breadth and long-term product delivery experience that helps organizations stabilize and scale engineering practices.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developerProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ehedberg/travis
Apr 2009 - Jun 2010
Contributions:26 commits in 1 year 2 months
jsarne/react-expensify
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:28 PRs, 29 pushes, 6 branches in 20 days
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