Jim Bethancourt
Principal Consultant at Improving
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJim Bethancourt is a Principal Consultant and seasoned Java engineer with 11 years of professional experience delivering resilient, test-first microservices and event-driven systems across finance and energy domains. He excels at improving team delivery through coaching, TDD/BDD, mutation testing, and practical adoption of tools like OpenRewrite, GitHub Copilot, and TestContainers to accelerate safe change. Jim routinely designs clean architectures and DDD-aligned services (Java 17, Spring Boot, Kafka) and has led migrations to cloud-native stacks including AKS and Azure Spring Apps while driving test and performance improvements. A long-time organizer of the Houston Java User Group and an OSS contributor (Pitest Cucumber plugin, dTangler), he brings both community leadership and hands-on plugin/administration experience for Atlassian tooling. Colleagues rely on him to spot process waste, introduce measurable quality practices, and translate complex business language into maintainable code—he even automated upgrades across 30+ apps with OpenRewrite to reduce technical debt. Based in Houston, Jim balances deep technical craft with mentorship and a pragmatic focus on delivering software that delights users.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Elkins High SchoolPostbaccalaureate Studies, Computer Science, Postbaccalaureate Studies, Computer Science at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
cycle-detection10
semgrep10
testng10
testing10
orientdb10
maven-plugin10
coverage10
perl10
wavelet10
refactor10
regression10
junit10
maven10
linter10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
refactorfirst/RefactorFirst
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Identifies and prioritizes God Classes Highly Coupled classes, and Class Cycles in Java codebases you should refactor first.
Contributions:36 releases, 6 reviews, 125 commits in 2 years 1 month
maven-pluginrefactormavenreportgod
jimbethancourt/dtangler
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Dependency Structure Matrix
Contributions:75 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
matrix
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