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Full-stack engineer, James Meyers — a decade taking projects from concept to production.

Specializes in TypeScript, React, and AWS serverless architectures, with deep experience in healthcare platforms where reliability, security, and real-time performance matter. Equally at home designing infrastructure as writing application code.

## experience

Full Stack Software Engineer @twentyideas Mar 2022 – present
  • Built and maintained a HIPAA and HITRUST certified healthcare platform connecting clinicians to patients for remote care, spanning medical device integrations, real-time communication, and EHR integrations.
  • Designed real-time communication features using WebSockets and WebRTC, enabling live clinician–patient interactions within a regulated healthcare environment.
  • Architected serverless infrastructure on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, DynamoDB) using CDK and CloudFormation, improving deployment consistency and scalability.
  • Implemented observability across serverless infrastructure using CloudWatch Logs, Metrics, Alarms, and X-Ray distributed tracing to support incident response and performance monitoring.
  • Provided emergency on-call support for critical issues affecting clinical users, diagnosing and resolving incidents under time pressure.
Full Stack Software Engineer @emberex Sep 2016 – Mar 2022
  • Progressed from frontend-focused development to full-stack lead, taking ownership of multiple projects end-to-end.
  • Led development on several client projects as the primary engineer, responsible for architecture, implementation, and delivery.
  • Built cross-platform mobile applications using React Native, shipping to both iOS and Android.
  • Expanded into backend development with Node.js, designing and managing databases in PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.
Front-End Web Developer @critical-thinking-co Apr 2013 – Sep 2016
  • Independently designed, built, and shipped several educational games, taking each from concept through release on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.
  • Built offline-first applications using web technologies packaged for native distribution across all major platforms.

## skills — pkg list --installed

languages

typescriptjavascriptpythonsql

frontend

reactreact-nativetailwind

backend

node.jsnestjswebsocketswebrtc

aws

lambdaecsfargateapi-gatewaycloudfrontrdsdynamodbs3sqssnsopensearchcloudwatchx-ray

infra + devops

aws-cdkcloudformationterraformdockergithub-actionscodepipeline

databases + orms

postgresqlmysqldynamodbsqliteprismadrizzlekyselyknex.js

tooling

nxturborepogitbash

## education

Computer Science Southwest Oregon Community College 2010 – 2013