Summary
James Tarleton is a Senior Drupal Developer with 11 years of professional experience building high-traffic, server-driven web applications across public sector and enterprise environments. He brings deep expertise in Drupal (Acquia Certified for Drupal 9), MVC frameworks, and the LAMP stack, coupled with hands-on cloud deployment and backend architecture skills. His career includes senior roles at Velir and the NYC Department of Transportation, where he balanced technical leadership with pragmatic delivery on complex, production-critical systems. James pairs full-stack fluency with a focus on scalable server-side engineering, often working on integrations and performance tuning that aren’t visible to end users but materially improve reliability. Educated in Information Systems at Auburn, he combines business-aware engineering with a steady record of shipping maintainable systems for large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.B.A, Information Systems, B.S.B.A, Information Systems at Auburn University Harbert College of Business