James Thullbery

Seattle, WA · (214) 609-0495 · ifndef@gmail.com

As a seniored team lead I help to bring together brilliant senior engineers and hungry junior developers to build a highly functioning engineering team that supports individual developer growth and incredible software products.


Experience

Architect & Technical Lead

KUDO

Lead team of engineers on the rewrite of KUDO's core product. Architected modern solution using Test Driven Development with a focus on Developer Experience and Automation. Implemented using a Monorepo, complete Continuous Intergration pipeline with Linting, Security Scanning and End-to-End Automated tests and a robust Continuous Delivery Pipeline that deployed upon every merge.

March 2021 - Present

Director of Engineering

RealResponse

Assumed ownership of the entire engineering department from a team of contractors. Scaled platform from a small Rails app deployed on Heroku to a modern Continuous Intergration & Continuous Delivery pipeline deploying via Kubernetes supporting many clients including many top Universities and Profession sports clubs. Responsible for Security Assessments, Technical Contracts and Single Sign-On.

June 2018 - March 2021

Techincal Lead

Spectrum Communications

Lead frontend team on an Internal Tool for the Sales Team. Heavly focused on improving the User Interface and User Experience for selling targeted ads to businesses all across the nation.

July 2017 - June 2018

Director of Software Development

Investor Management Services

Lead large team of Software Engineers and DevOps Enginners to support a Fintech startup. Helped Architect, Design and Develop the Data Model, Testing framework and Infrastructure. Hosted a ReactJS meetup where we put on talks and recruited developers.

October 2015 - July 2017

CTO

Klickpush

As a Cofounder I Designed, Architected and Developed all internal and external tools for Klickpush. Responsible for building, monitoring and maintaining Klickpush infrastructure in the cloud. Successfully migrated between 3 cloud providers without any downtime.

September 2013 - October 2015

Software Developer and Manager

Teladoc

First job working at a startup. Started as a PHP Developer but became a Rails Developer when our manager returned from RailsConf 2008.

June 2008 - September 2013

Junior Software Developer

Pango Media

Software Consultant

September 2007 - June 2008

Education

Montana Tech of the University of Montana

Bachelor of Science
Software Engineering
August 2002 - May 2007

Billing Central Catholic High School

August 1998 - June 2002