Jim Lake
Principal at Harbour Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Lake is a principal software leader and serial founder with 13 years of experience building web, mobile, and social game products from concept to scale. He currently leads Harbour Games and founded King's Head Games and Data Cortex, blending product-focused game development with data-driven analytics and SaaS tooling. Jim has deep hands-on expertise in JavaScript/React front-ends, cloud architecture and full-stack systems, and a track record of moving legacy systems to AWS and growing engineering teams. He has repeatedly turned technical R&D into commercial products—selling a wireless ISP, raising angel funding for hardware/software ventures, and shipping personalized video platforms as a former CTO. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with practical engineering leadership and a knack for turning analytics into actionable product metrics. Colleagues know him for bridging creative game design with robust backend architecture and rapid, quality delivery.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Southern California
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (87)
camera10
swift10
cross-platform10
xcode10
android10
mobile10
macos10
face-detection10
objective-c10
ios10
react-native10
scanning10
react10
cocoapods10
plsql9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jim-lake/crypto-playground
Jan 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:81 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
jim-lake/server-control
Sep 2014 - Jan 2023
NodeJS Server Control
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 8 years 4 months
nodejsnodejs-serverserverchild-processnode
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