Jim Barrows
Senior Software Engineer at DegreeSight
Dothan, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolJim Barrows is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building event-driven, service-oriented systems for healthcare, finance, and enterprise customers, currently focused at DegreeSight. He blends hands-on development in Java, Scala, Spring Boot, Quarkus, and React with cloud-native deployment expertise using AWS/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm to deliver highly available, scalable solutions. Jim has led migrations from legacy JEE systems to modern microservices, designed SOA blueprints for public health programs, and helped secure follow-on contracts through pragmatic architecture and execution. Comfortable across the full stack and lifecycle, he repeatedly turns complex regulatory and data-heavy domains into reliable production services. Based in Dothan, Alabama, he pairs a detail-oriented engineering approach with a founder’s mindset from earlier startup work that automated marketing workflows and resilient integrations.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Political Science and Government, Political Science and Government at Arizona State University WestComputer Science, Computer Science at Northern Arizona University
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Github Skills (86)
points10
plot9
docker-desktop9
jpa-hibernate9
java9
devtools8
jasmine8
cucumber8
umbrella7
printing7
jpa7
spring-boot7
spring7
protractor7
design-patterns6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ErpMicroServices/people_and_organizations-features
Mar 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 45 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 11 months
ErpMicroServices/order-endpoint-rest
Jun 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 23 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 8 months
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