James Squillante
Staff AI Software Engineer at Assured
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Squillante is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building backend-first systems across startups and large enterprises. He specializes in architecting performant services and data pipelines—having led reporting, batching and streaming solutions, messaging infrastructure, and a major refactor of Apple's contract lifecycle system that improved performance by over 70%. Comfortable across the full SDLC, he favors backend challenges like large-file streaming (notably contributing stream support to stripe-node to handle big uploads reliably). James blends hands-on coding with mentorship and rigorous code standards, driving refactors and automated QA to reduce tech debt. Persistent about continual mastery, he seeks to learn from top engineers while shipping practical, production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of Delaware
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
nodejs10
file-upload10
stripe10
testing9
apidoc9
chai9
api9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stripe/stripe-node
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Node.js library for the Stripe API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 22 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:James focused on implementing stream support for file uploads within the Node.js library. They modified `StripeMethod.js`, `StripeResource.js`, `FileUploads.js`, and `MultipartDataGenerator.js` to handle file streams. The user also added tests to confirm the correct file upload behavior with streams, including error handling. Their contributions significantly improved the library's ability to handle large file uploads efficiently.
nodejs-librarystripe-apistripestripe-sdk
jjsquillante/regex
May 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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