Jim Segal
Engineering Manager at Stord
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJim Segal is an engineering manager in Chicago with 11 years of hands-on experience building and leading full-stack teams that deliver scalable web applications using Elixir, React, GraphQL and TypeScript. He has a strong track record of shipping greenfield projects—forecasting inventory and streamlining quoting systems—that created new product opportunities and reduced manual work. Jim blends architecture and delivery leadership with mentorship, having led teams of up to five engineers and improved hiring and interview processes. He’s passionate about real-time systems and open source, and pairs that curiosity with practical integrations of predictive models and LLMs into production workflows. Outside work he builds websites and experiments with hobbyist 3D creation, reflecting a maker mindset that informs pragmatic, user-focused engineering.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Psychology, Computer Information Systems, Bachelor, Psychology, Computer Information Systems at Eastern Illinois University
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Github Skills (26)
hex10
elixir10
elixir-programming-language10
phoenix-framework10
credit-card7
input-mask7
dot6
jekyll4
zsh3
tmux3
standardization3
pattern3
bamboo2
linux2
beam2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jsegal205/jimsegal-projects
Aug 2017 - Sep 2024
Random projects that I like to show case
Contributions:95 reviews, 163 PRs, 285 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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jsegal205/jimsegal.com
Jan 2015 - Sep 2024
Source for jimsegal.com
Contributions:24 PRs, 199 pushes, 19 branches in 9 years 9 months
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