James Spears
Architect at BMO
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Spears is a software architect with a decade of hands-on experience building web-first systems, currently shaping architecture at BMO after leading OLBB development with Angular, JavaScript, and DevOps practices. Trained as an industrial engineering technologist and a physics graduate from the University of Waterloo, he brings a rare combination of troubleshooting applied industrial systems and computational science to complex data problems. Passionate about Node.js and frontend web development, he pairs pragmatic engineering with user-facing polish, having moved between full-stack roles, freelance projects, and AI/automation work. Known for translating STEM rigor into scalable software delivery, he often seeks opportunities that intersect data, automation, and elegant front-end experiences.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
eTechnologist Industrial Engineering, eTechnologist Industrial Engineering at Durham CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (39)
cpp8
php8
objective-c8
csharp8
ruby7
python7
grpc7
audio6
transcode6
ffmpeg6
angular-universal4
spring-boot4
command-line-tool4
firebase4
ktor3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
james-spears/resume
Nov 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:13 releases, 63 pushes, 27 tags in 4 years 8 months
james-spears/james-spears.github.io
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
https://jameswspears.github.io/
Contributions:3 PRs, 48 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 9 months
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