James Smith
Vice President Of Engineering at Lumen Learning
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Smith is a pragmatic engineering leader with 25+ years of experience turning complex problems into reliable software and over a decade in senior engineering roles. Based in Denver, he has risen through hands-on development to Director and now Vice President of Engineering at Lumen Learning, blending day-to-day coding empathy with strategic delivery and team scaling. His background spans higher education and enterprise systems—roles at Indiana University, The University of Arizona, Kuali, and Cotiviti—giving him deep domain knowledge in academic and financial systems. Known for translating stakeholder complexity into audit-ready, maintainable solutions, he pairs technical rigor with a communicator’s sensibility rooted in an MA in Theatre. Colleagues value his ability to bridge legacy architectures and modern practices while keeping teams focused on outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (12)
xml8
edx7
python6
react5
financial5
java4
spring-boot4
spring4
lti2
citations2
css1
javascript1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
smith750/kfs
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 164 pushes, 100 branches in 6 months
financialreactfinancial-system
smith750/smith750.github.io
Oct 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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