Jim Bolla
Frontend Software Engineer at Tomorrow Health
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJim Bolla is a frontend software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web UIs and backend integrations, currently shaping patient-facing products at Tomorrow Health from Pittsburgh. He combines deep JavaScript/React expertise with a strong .NET and database background (C#, ASP.NET, MS SQL Server), regularly applying design patterns, refactoring, and test-driven practices to improve maintainability and performance. Jim has driven technology adoption and architecture changes throughout his career—from introducing React and DI in legacy apps to reducing long-running data processes from hours to minutes. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects, notably refactoring core parts of the official react-redux bindings to improve subscription performance and memoization. A pragmatic mentor and hands-on engineer, he balances shipping features with long-term technical health and automated testing.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
(none), Computer Science, (none), Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
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dependency-injection
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react-router
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react-redux
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inversion-of-control
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redux
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
testing10
redux10
autofac10
react10
lifecycle9
react-redux9
memoization9
asp-net-mvc9
visual-studio9
inversion-of-control9
dependency-injection9
react-router9
wpf6
mercurial6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
reduxjs/react-redux
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Official React bindings for Redux
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:93 commits, 26 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on refactoring and reimplementing core functionality within the React-Redux library, specifically the `connect` and `connectAdvanced` components. Their work involved significant changes to how components subscribe to the Redux store and receive props, including memoization and dependency handling. The user also introduced improvements to the component's display name and added a test to address a React bug related to subscriptions. These changes appear to focus on improving performance, and maintainability.
reactreduxredux-toolkitreact-bindings
jimbolla/react-redux
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
Official React bindings for Redux
Contributions:84 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 7 months
reactreduxreact-bindings
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