James Saxon
Senior Software Engineer I at Shming
Redondo Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Saxon is a senior software engineer with over three decades of experience, currently building front-to-back web and backend systems at Cars.com and running his consultancy Shming. He blends pragmatic engineering—shipping robust, budget- and time-conscious solutions—with a deep grasp of architecture across Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript, ETL, and DevOps tooling. His background includes advanced degrees in computer science and electrical engineering, a published paper in AI/robotics, and hands-on work with machine learning and neural networks. Known for out-of-the-box conceptual thinking, thorough documentation, and steady client collaboration, he routinely uncovers multiple viable solutions to thorny problems. James has sustained a long consulting practice across enterprise, nonprofit, and product teams, which keeps him adept at translating vision into maintainable systems. Based in Redondo Beach, he is passionate about using technology for democracy, education, and sustainability.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Um, a diploma., Um, a diploma. at US Grant HighMS, MS at Texas A&M UniversityBS, BS at University of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (14)
selenium5
angular-app5
javascript4
protractor4
java4
angular4
profiling4
datadog3
e2e-test3
webdriver3
apm2
bytebuddy2
distributed-tracing2
rust1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jsaxon-cars/Pyramid-Backbone-Playground
Sep 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:31 commits in 5 months
jsaxon-cars/rust-exercises
May 2019 - Oct 2019
exercises for learning rust
Contributions:25 pushes, 5 branches in 4 months
rustrust-languagerust-langlearning-rust
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