Summary
Jim Flanagan is a pragmatic software engineer and co-designer based in Seattle with over three decades of hands-on technology experience and 11 years focused on large-scale service development. He spent 12 years at AWS building cryptographic material management services and shaping APIs, and earlier led integrations, SSO, and enterprise reporting work for SaaS product lines. Comfortable across Java, C#, Perl, and system administration, he has a history of mentoring teams, driving integration-ready designs, and operationalizing secure payment and directory solutions. Currently channeling his technical creativity into human-powered craft design, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a maker’s curiosity and an outdoorsman’s discipline as an intermediate-advanced kayaker.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, Computer Science, BS, Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Washington