James Sweetman
Senior Engineering Manager at Prepared
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Sweetman is a Senior Engineering Manager based in New York with 11 years of experience leading teams and shipping developer-facing and backend systems across startups and large product organizations. He progressed from individual contributor roles at Salesforce and Affirm to staff and managerial positions at Settle and Prepared, demonstrating a track record of scaling teams and technical ownership in fast-moving fintech and enterprise environments. Hands-on by background, he has contributed to the popular forcedotcom/salesforcedx-vscode extensions—adding IDE commands and file-handling fixes that directly improve developer productivity. James blends product-minded engineering with mentorship, having coached students and junior engineers earlier in his career, and often bridges product, platform, and developer experience priorities. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he focuses on shipping reliable features while growing strong engineering culture.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (16)
typescript10
typescripts10
web-components10
vscode-extension10
apex10
salesforce10
typescript-types10
cgi6
pip6
migration6
django-models6
mod-wsgi6
apache6
schema-migrations6
django6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
forcedotcom/salesforcedx-vscode
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Salesforce Extensions for VS Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 107 PRs, 413 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the development of Salesforce DX VS Code extensions. Their work involved creating Apex classes and Visualforce components, including the implementation of commands for creating these artifacts within the IDE. They also addressed issues related to file handling, such as fixing file opening after creation and handling relative paths. Additionally, the user added features like commands for creating Lightning apps, components, and events.
vscode-debuggervscode-extensionlightningvscodesalesforce-developers
Sweetman/sweetman.github.io
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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