James Shkolnik
Engineering at Gusto!
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJames Shkolnik is an experienced software engineer with 11 years in the industry, currently building product engineering at Gusto in San Francisco. He brings a pragmatic mindset—"finding the right tool for the job"—and balances practical engineering choices with long-term system health. A University of Pennsylvania-trained computer engineer, he focuses on delivering reliable, maintainable software at scale within fast-moving teams. Though his public GitHub footprint is minimal, his long tenure at Gusto suggests deep domain knowledge in payroll and HR platform engineering and a preference for shipping production-ready solutions over flashy open-source signals.
11 years of coding experience
Francis W. Parker SchoolBSE, Computer Science Engineering, BSE, Computer Science Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish
Github Skills (53)
monitor9
grpc-ruby9
scheduler9
python9
endpoints9
rails-app9
orchestration8
grpc-web8
rack8
mlops8
automation8
etl8
apache8
machine-learning8
data-science8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Gusto/grpc-web-ruby
Dec 2019 - Aug 2020
Host gRPC-Web endpoints for Ruby gRPC services in a Rack or Rails app (over HTTP/1.1). Client included.
Contributions:3 reviews, 61 commits, 6 PRs in 8 months
grpc-rubyrails-apphostgrpc-servicesrails
Gusto/rack-webpack
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 PRs, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
devrackdev-serverwebpack-dev-serverwebpack
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