Jim Howard
Founder And President at Calsam, LLC
Polk City, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Howard is a founder and technology leader with over two decades of experience building and managing IT infrastructure from desktop to data center, and 11 years as a consultant and company president focused on DevOps, IoT, automation, and security. He has led infrastructure teams at startups and enterprises—shaping platforms, performance testing, and vendor integrations for companies like Dwolla and ADT—then parlayed that hands-on expertise into Calsam, LLC to help clients balance innovation with cost and stability. Skilled in cloud and local infrastructure, Zigbee/Z-Wave/WiFi IoT stacks, and performance-driven devops, he drives pragmatic architectures that anticipate business needs and scale. Based in Polk City, Iowa, he blends engineer-level technical depth with a strategic, product-minded approach to deliver measurable operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Iowa State University
Github Skills (152)
terraform10
core-library10
camera10
openhab10
java10
ccd10
terraform-provider10
timelapse10
dslr10
aws10
addon10
radio-astronomy10
terraform-module9
iot-device9
sky9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xsnrg/stellarsolver
Oct 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 9 months
xsnrg/OpenHAB2-tools
Jun 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 10 PRs, 39 pushes in 3 years 3 months
openhab2assist
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