Summary
Jim Hoskins is a Staff Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 17 years of experience building full‑stack products and shipping rapid iterations across startups and large teams. He combines deep Ruby on Rails and JavaScript expertise with practical Go backend work and infrastructure know‑how—Docker, Chef, AWS and Linux—so he can own features end‑to‑end from prototype to production. At Airbnb he led integrations, taught Rails to hundreds of engineers, and ran incident response for support systems, and more recently has driven staff‑level engineering at Kojo and Higharc. A former educator and content host, he brings an uncommon mix of hands‑on engineering, teaching experience, and product intuition that accelerates team learning and delivery.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Central Florida