Jim Bulkowski
Lead Backend Architect at Paper Electron
Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States
Summary
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SeniorJim Bulkowski is a Lead Backend Architect with 13 years of experience building scalable SaaS and PaaS backends for startups and small-to-medium businesses. Based in Lawrenceville, GA, he architects and implements realtime and data services—currently driving backend development for TrivNow—while maintaining a long-standing commitment to open source at Paper Electron. Comfortable across Java, Ruby, Python, Go and a preference for JavaScript/Node.js, he blends hands-on coding with system design to deliver practical, production-ready tooling and libraries. He has led teams and operations from game server monetization to visual merchandising SaaS, revealing a knack for turning niche product needs into reliable platforms. Colleagues rely on him to simplify complex problems and ship usable solutions quickly.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (166)
letsencrypt9
prompt9
golang9
reverse-proxy9
logger9
docker9
aws9
nodejs9
load-balancer9
code-coverage9
cli8
ansible8
inquirer8
javascript8
glusterfs8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PaperElectron/Magnum-DI
May 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:73 commits, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
PaperElectron/Sundry
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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