Jim Burbridge
Sr. Full Stack Engineer at Yahoo Finance
Vallejo, California, United States
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Top SchoolJim Burbridge is a Sr. Full Stack Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building scalable web applications and developer tooling across startups and large teams, currently shaping architecture and DX at Yahoo Finance. He is a TypeScript-focused polyglot, comfortable across React/Angular/Vue, Node.js, PHP, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and AWS, and has practical experience with databases from MySQL/Postgres (PostGIS) to Neo4j and MongoDB. At Yahoo he helped design a federated GraphQL router and a zero-downtime schema updater (with a Rust component), and has contributed UX-focused full-stack work in notable codebases like the TypeScript community project typehero. Former roles at Amazon and FullStory underscore his depth in front-end engineering and internal tooling, while earlier teaching and tutoring roles reflect strong communication and mentoring skills. Based in Vallejo, CA, he blends curiosity-driven learning with pragmatic engineering—often volunteering as the in-house TypeScript guru to help teams adopt safer, modern code.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics - Teaching, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics - Teaching at California State University - East BayTransfer Credits Liberal Arts - Transfer, Transfer Credits Liberal Arts - Transfer at Contra Costa College
English, German, Russian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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38questions
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Github Skills (26)
typescript10
nextjs10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
prisma9
google-api9
javascript9
ui-design9
css9
front-end-development9
uid9
google-drive-api9
html9
backend8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
typehero/typehero
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
Connect, collaborate, and grow with a community of TypeScript developers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:59 reviews, 34 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jim implemented features for the reporting UI within the TypeScript codebase, including adding new components and integrating them with existing functionality. They also fixed a seed script to run on Windows and added a new card design for the explore page, contributing to UI enhancements. Furthermore, the user updated code filtering and made modifications to admin features such as adding comment reports and fixing URLs.
nextjsprismareacttypescript
sungmanito/mono
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:13 reviews, 135 PRs, 364 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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