Jim S
Co-Founder & CTO at AccelPay
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJim S is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder & CTO based in Austin with 12 years of hands-on experience building payments and compliance-driven platforms. He has led engineering at startups and scale-stage companies including AccelPay, Etsy Payments, and Sana Benefits, blending product-focused architecture with day-to-day shipping. Comfortable across the stack, his background spans backend database engineering, PHP/JS web development, and operational ownership—evident in open-source contributions to the widely used Phinx database migration tool where he fixed adapter edge cases and hardened migration tests. Jim’s strengths include turning regulatory complexity into usable commerce flows (notably for alcohol direct-to-consumer sales) and shepherding teams through growth and reliability challenges. Collected entrepreneurial experience from founding early ventures informs a pragmatic, delivery-first leadership style that still enjoys diving into bugs and migrations himself.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Kentucky
English
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Github Skills (19)
database-migrations10
sqlite10
php10
database-migration10
testing9
html9
database8
database-administration8
databases8
admin8
imagemagick6
codeigniter6
html5-video6
api6
youtube6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/phinx
Sep 2015 - Apr 2019
PHP Database Migrations for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to improving the database migration functionality within the Phinx project. Their work includes implementing error handling for missing database configurations, fixing test cases related to environment options, and correcting regular expressions used in tests. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug in the SQLite adapter to ensure proper handling of character limits in CHAR-typed columns, demonstrating a focus on database adapter specifics.
database-migrationdatabase-migrationsphpmigrationsphp-database-migrations
jimdoescode/jimdoescode.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:225 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 10 months
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