Lead Full Stack Engineer

James is a technical leader with a decade of experience building and scaling high-performance SaaS platforms at companies like Pendo, Cisco, and Red Hat. He excels at solving complex architectural challenges at the intersection of product engineering and infrastructure. His expertise includes leading full-stack teams, establishing rigorous engineering standards for observability and secure coding, architecting and implementing LLM-powered features and RAG pipelines, designing event-driven architectures with Kafka and RabbitMQ, and managing secure, multi-tenant backend services. He has extensive experience operating containerized services on AWS with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, driven by automated CI/CD pipelines. James holds a B.S. in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill and focuses on performance, long-term maintainability, and clean UI/UX across modern frameworks like React and Vue.js. He is looking for Senior or Lead roles in fast-moving teams where he can drive technical strategy and deliver high-integrity software at scale.