Summary
Jamie Birney is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience leading product-focused engineering teams across Greater Boston, currently building at Carrum Health after architect and lead roles that helped guide Valor Performance from early product to acquisition. He blends hands-on full-stack development with pragmatic technical leadership, favoring clear direction while inviting diverse perspectives—“strong opinions, loosely held”—to help teams coalesce on useful, reliable, and enjoyable products. Jamie’s background includes architecting systems at Mursion and Valor, and an atypical early career in housing administration and theater production that surfaces in his strengths for operational coordination and modular, reusable design. He holds a BA from Swarthmore and an MDiv, signaling a reflective approach to leadership and problem solving that pairs technical depth with human-centered decision making.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Music Art History, Bachelor of Arts Music Art History at Swarthmore College
Master of Divinity (MDiv), Master of Divinity (MDiv) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary