James Snodgrass
Director Of Engineering at Sign In Solutions | Visitor Management System
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Snodgrass is a seasoned Director of Engineering with 14 years of hands-on full‑stack experience building production web and payments systems. He led and scaled Recurly’s Payments team from a single engineer to a cross-functional group while architecting services that processed billions in payments and vaulted millions of cards under PCI constraints. Comfortable across Ruby, Go, Python, JavaScript and multiple databases and front-end frameworks, he combines deep technical execution with people leadership and product-minded delivery. He’s an active contributor to notable open-source work like recurly-js, where he added ACH support, improved Apple Pay tokenization, and built fraud data collection features. Based in Kings Mountain, NC, he now applies that payments and security expertise to visitor management and compliance products as a director. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who turns complex regulatory and integration challenges into reliable, auditable systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Communications, Web Development and Marketing, Digital Communications, Web Development and Marketing at Franklin University
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
apple-pay10
payment10
fraud-detection9
react4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
recurly/recurly-js
May 2015 - Jan 2020
Simple subscription billing in the browser
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 73 commits, 64 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:James contributed significantly to the `recurly-js` repository, which focuses on subscription billing. Their work included implementing ACH payment support, updating discount calculations to respect single-use coupons, and adding a data-collector module for fraud checking. They also made updates to Apple Pay integration, improving the functionality of token creation by incorporating address and name data. Further contributions included version updates and minor bug fixes.
paymentsbrowserin-app-purchasestorekitsubscriptions
snodgrass23/base12
Jan 2012 - Mar 2016
12factor.net web application boilerplate for node.js built on express.js
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years 2 months
expressjsnodejs
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