Jim Brighter
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Brighter is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience building and shipping web applications across financial and retail technology at Capital One and Walmart Global Tech. He combines hands-on front-end and back-end skills with team leadership, having progressed from individual contributor roles to engineering manager and now lead at Capital One. Jim contributes to notable open-source projects—such as creating an Emacs cheat sheet instant answer for DuckDuckGo—demonstrating attention to UX and documentation alongside code. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he holds a BA in Psychology and Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, bringing a user-centered, analytical approach to solving complex product and engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Psychology Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
emacs10
instantsearch10
duckduckgo9
javascript8
computation7
perl7
programming-language7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on Perl & JavaScript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on developing a "goodie" or instant answer for the DuckDuckGo search engine, specifically an Emacs cheat sheet. Their contributions involved implementing the user interface (HTML/CSS), defining the display, and integrating the content within the larger `zeroclickinfo-goodies` project. The user was also responsible for initial creation, formatting, and styling of the cheat sheet, including defining the appearance of the cheat sheet.
javascriptperlinstant-answersduckduckgo
jim-brighter/pi-dashboard
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
A zero-framework site that fetches local weather information from weather.gov
Contributions:2 PRs, 70 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
govweather-govzerofetchesweather-information
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