Judson James
FIRST Robotics Mentor at FRC Team 4451 ROBOTZ Garage
Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJudson James is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native systems, ETL pipelines, and full-stack applications using TypeScript, Python, Docker, Terraform, and AWS. He combines hands-on infrastructure work—dynamically provisioning Fargate/Glue workers and optimizing ETL costs—with frontend and backend development across React, Node, Django, and serverless architectures. As a committed mentor and FIRST Robotics alum, he teaches control systems, Java/WPILib, and competition tooling while also developing scouting and vision tools like GarageScouter. Judson’s background in data engineering (Glue, PySpark, EMR) and habit of automating CI/CD pipelines lets him turn messy operational needs into efficient, user-friendly solutions. Based in Columbia, SC, he blends homelab tinkering and production-grade cloud experience, often surfacing pragmatic optimizations that reduce cost and complexity.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at University of South Carolina
English
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Github Skills (27)
wpilib10
java9
computer-vision9
typescript8
robotics8
minecraft7
opencv7
msword6
office-js6
javascript6
gameserver5
docker-compose5
image-processing4
docker-image4
linux4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
judsonjames/manga_website
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 4 pushes in 5 months
judsonjames/gatsby-judsonjames.com
Apr 2020 - Feb 2023
Professional Portfolio and Profile Website
Contributions:10 PRs, 45 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 10 months
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