James Speirs
Staff Software Engineer at Restaurant365
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolJames Speirs is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building developer-focused tooling and documentation that reduces friction and accelerates team productivity. Currently at Restaurant365 and formerly a long-time Web Application Architect and instructor at Brigham Young University, he combines hands-on engineering with technical writing and hands-on training to ensure tools are usable and adopted. He has a strong background in web application architecture, database optimization, and process automation from roles at BYU and Intel. Known for spotting developer pain points, James iterates on tools, docs, and training to drive continuous improvement—plus he teaches an advanced web development class that students consistently praise.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (142)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
byu-oit/wabs
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 63 pushes, 11 branches in 11 months
bootstrap4bootstrapweb-applicationbootstrap-server
byu-oit/byu-jwt-nodejs
May 2016 - Feb 2021
This package provides helpful functions for validating and using BYU's JWTs.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 45 commits in 4 years 9 months
jwtshelpfulbyujwtvalidating
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