James Cox

Summary

With over 18 years of software engineering experience, I am a seasoned and versatile technology leader who can tackle any challenge and deliver high-quality solutions. I am currently a principal engineer and consultant at smokeclouds, a boutique engineering agency that creates innovative, exciting sites and applications for a variety of companies and start-ups. Whether as an individual contributor or a manager, I have successfully led and supported multiple projects from prototype to production, across different domains and technologies. Some of my achievements include resetting a 20-person engineering team in four weeks, reducing client onboarding time by 25%, and building a top-to-bottom data strategy in three weeks. I have also improved team performance, optimized code, and developed strategies to reduce costs and improve efficiency. I am passionate about growth in engineering management, focusing on how to enable teams to build fantastic products and deliverables with the people around them. I have strong skills in web applications, databases, cloud engineering, architecture, DevOps, and agile methodologies. I am also a Triplebyte certified generalist software engineer, demonstrating my proficiency and versatility in the field.