James Somers
Builder at August Health
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Somers is a product-focused staff engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling web and audio-first products. He led Adobe Podcast and Firefly Generate Soundtrack to over a million monthly active users, growing and managing engineering teams while shipping complex features like multi-user recording, transcript-based editing, and AI-driven audio enhancement. Comfortable across Rails, React/TypeScript, WebRTC, and audio tooling (ffmpeg, Web Audio API), he pairs hands-on implementation with strong product instincts from ideation through launch. Previously he drove partner-facing SDKs and microservices at Trading Ticket and led client engagements at thoughtbot and Pivotal, championing TDD, CI, and pragmatic architecture decisions. Now in New York, he’s building at The Solitary Bureau and contributing to healthcare tech at August Health, bringing a pattern of small teams delivering outsized impact. Collected from both startup and enterprise contexts, his background shows a rare mix of audio product expertise and full-stack systems craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyBachelor of Computer Science & Technology (Exchange), Bachelor of Computer Science & Technology (Exchange) at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (72)
sdk10
integrate10
defaults9
trading9
capybara9
factories8
rack8
spin8
minecraft8
heroku8
testing8
ios8
rails8
test-kitchen7
ruby7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tradingticket/TradeItIosTicketSDK2
Sep 2016 - Jul 2018
TradeIt iOS SDK to integrate trading and portfolio management.
Contributions:1 release, 260 commits, 278 PRs in 1 year 10 months
ios-sdkportfolio-managementsdktradingios
jsom/curb-your-consumerism
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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