JM Presley
Staff Software Engineer at Divergent
Long Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolJM Presley is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams through headless commerce and platform transformations. He has driven Shopify Hydrogen and Next.js storefront migrations at consumer brands like Dr. Squatch and Ruggable, pairing Remix/React/Tailwind frontends with TypeScript component libraries to speed delivery and improve mobile performance. JM also architects AWS serverless backends (Lambda, EventBridge, Amplify) and experimentation pipelines, having replatformed Taco Bell’s tools for real-time updates across 7,000+ locations and built A/B frameworks that informed promotional strategy. Comfortable toggling between hands-on coding and people leadership, he’s led teams of 6–9 engineers to measurable business outcomes in conversion, performance, and operational cost. A former founder of an artisan cake studio, he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and product sensibility to engineering decisions. Based in Long Beach, CA, he’s open to senior engineering leadership roles where he can scale systems, teams, and delivery processes.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (29)
jquery-validate10
json9
jquery9
serialization9
asp-net-mvc9
xml9
django7
flarum7
html6
hosting6
questions-and-answers6
vbnet6
asp-net6
ado-net6
php6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jmptr/node-icanhazdadjoke-client
Aug 2017 - Mar 2020
node client for icanhasdadjoke api
Contributions:6 PRs, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
node-clientapiimpressnodejs
jmptr/basebox
Aug 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 3 pushes in 8 months
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