Summary
James Vannordstrand is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building backend services, DevOps pipelines, and cloud-hosted applications across finance and enterprise sectors. He’s delivered production systems at T. Rowe Price and Jack Henry, led technical teams and architecture as a senior tech lead at QCI, and has hands-on DevOps experience managing CI/CD, source control, and automation. Proficient in C#, .NET, T-SQL, and a range of frontend and tooling technologies, he pairs deep backend expertise with experience in Azure, AWS, Jenkins, Octopus, and microservice-driven designs. His background includes building web crawlers and microservices at Banno and mentoring interns, showing a blend of pragmatic engineering and knowledge transfer. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he combines enterprise-scale delivery with the curiosity of a polyglot technologist who likes to publish a personal portfolio (Jimbolt.Me) for deeper context.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of Northern Iowa