Jim O'flaherty
Remote Backend Sr. Software Engineer at Fetch Package
Irving, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorJim O'flaherty is a seasoned backend engineer and founder with over two decades designing and delivering enterprise-grade IT systems, currently working remotely as a Senior Backend Engineer at Fetch Package. He built his career as an architect at XO Communications (now Verizon), leading programs that cut IT costs and pioneered location-based fraud detection. For the past 18 years he’s focused on highly scalable SOA web services and GIS/geocoding solutions, shifting from Java/JEE to Scala and functional programming while operating across Oracle, SQL Server, and AWS stacks. As founder and CEO of QA Locate, he created a PaaS that standardizes precision location data for fraud prevention, logistics, IoT, and autonomous systems—simplifying address complexity with a new system of record. Jim combines hands-on engineering, DevOps and production support experience with product-level thinking, and brings an uncommon depth in spatial intelligence that bridges mapping products and mission-critical business use cases.
12 years of coding experience
English
Stackoverflow
5,764reputation
1.1mreached
79answers
55questions
scala
top-5%
enumeration
top-5%
Github Skills (49)
catch-all10
enumeration9
java9
scala9
dotty9
compiler8
immutable-collections8
functional-programming8
eclipse6
amazon-dynamodb6
azure-data-studio6
case-class6
equals6
sbt6
pattern-matching6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chaotic3quilibrium/scala-olio
Sep 2014 - Dec 2017
Contributions:66 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 2 months
catch-allscalamiscellaneousfixes
chaotic3quilibrium/deus-ex-java
Oct 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:27 PRs, 41 pushes, 32 branches in 8 months
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