Jim Menard
Staff Software Engineer at New York CTO Club
Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolJim Menard is a staff software engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience helping mid- to late-stage consumer startups and established companies scale backend systems, mature processes, and ship reliable features. He excels at diagnosing production pain points—optimizing databases, async patterns, and caching—to deliver measurable improvements in latency, throughput, and SLOs across diverse stacks (Python, Go, Ruby, C#, SQL, Redis, Kafka, AWS). Jim often serves as the “graybeard” mentor and tech lead who writes architecture docs, codifies standards, and guides teams through refactors and platform migrations. His background includes high-impact roles at SeatGeek, Warby Parker, and The RealReal, plus consulting in health tech and earlier work building large-scale content systems and recommendation platforms. Outside work he’s an active open-source author of tooling (MIDI, XML, transpilers) and a frequent keyboard performer, reflecting a blend of technical craft and creative practice.
15 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics and Computer Science, B.A., Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Rochester
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Github Skills (65)
csv-import10
ruby10
audit-trail10
midi10
csv10
emacs-initialization10
csv-export10
audit10
csv-parser10
auditing10
midi-controller10
orm-extension10
activerecord9
filereader9
shopify9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jimm/pmserver
Oct 2019 - May 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
jimm/golang
Oct 2011 - Oct 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 1 month
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