Jim Fiorato
Software Engineer at Blueprint
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJim Fiorato is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable, browser-based applications and enterprise cloud systems from startup to Fortune-scale organizations. He has held senior technical and leadership roles at Amazon, Nordstrom, and Trunk Club and now contributes his architectural and delivery expertise at Blueprint. Jim combines hands-on engineering with product focus—shipping market-ready software and leading cloud-native SaaS operations, notably for The Old Reader RSS platform. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced the popular Feedjira feed parser to better handle Atom/YouTube formats and XHTML content, reflecting deep backend parsing and integration skills. Based in Chicago, he pairs pragmatic system design with a history of refactoring legacy codebases into maintainable, scalable services. Colleagues rely on him to bridge engineering execution and long-term architectural vision.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Glenbrook North High SchoolAA, Business Management and Accounting, AA, Business Management and Accounting at Scott Community College
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Github Skills (20)
rss10
ruby10
feedparser10
parsing10
parse10
nokogiri10
testing9
ajax9
dynamic9
xml-parsing9
html9
xml9
truncation6
dhtml6
connections6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
feedjira/feedjira
Apr 2014 - Nov 2016
A feed parsing library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 14 PRs, 8 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on enhancing the feed parsing library, `feedjira/feedjira`. Their contributions included expanding support for various Atom feed formats, particularly those from YouTube and FeedBurner, handling XHTML content within feeds, and fixing issues related to duplicate content. They also refactored the code base to support the new formats. They introduced new features for parsing and extracting information like metadata from YouTube feeds.
rssparsingrss-parserfeedparser
theoldreader/i18n
Dec 2013 - Oct 2016
Localizations for The Old Reader
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 10 months
the-old-readertranslationinternationalizationreaderlocalizations
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