Burger Builder
A responsive single-page app for stacking a custom burger order — Redux drives the running total, and auth state survives a refresh.
- React
- Redux
- Firebase
Software Engineer · San Francisco, CA
Hi, I'm Jim.
I build cloud data platforms by day, then over-engineer side projects by night.
01 / Work
Projects
Live
Small tools I actively build and maintain — quick ideas, live for anyone to use.
Chicken, Scaled.
Scale a braised chicken sauce and slurry to whatever weight of chicken you're holding.
Open
SF Apartment Finder
Live feed from a Craigslist scraper running on a schedule, filtered to exactly what I'm looking for.
Open
Daily Allowance
What's safe to spend today, rolling yesterday's leftovers forward. Demo with sample data — the real one tracks my actual budget.
OpenLegacy
Earlier full-stack projects from when I was starting out.
ArchivedRestaurant Reviews
A full-stack review platform with a Spring Boot API backing a React frontend, deployed on AWS. The original S3-hosted demo has since been decommissioned.
- React
- Spring Boot
- MySQL
- AWS
Profiles REST API
A backend-only REST API for user profile creation and management, with token auth and full CRUD via Django Viewsets.
- Python
- Django REST Framework
02 / Toolbox
Skills
Languages
- Python
- Scala
- Java
- SQL
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Bash
Data & Streaming
- Apache Spark
- Kafka
- Flink
- Kinesis
- Iceberg
- Delta Lake
Cloud & Platforms
- AWS
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- S3
- Glue
- Lambda
- EMR
- MSK
Infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- IAM
Observability
- Datadog
- Grafana
- Splunk
- CloudWatch
Web (personal projects)
- React
- Next.js
- Redux
- Django REST Framework
- Firebase
03 / Me
About
I'm a software engineer based in San Francisco, originally from Bellevue, WA. By day I build cloud data platforms and streaming infrastructure; on the side I build small web projects, mostly as an excuse to over-engineer things nobody asked for. Outside of the editor I'm usually hiking, shooting hoops, planning the next trip, or getting outvoted by my cat Benji on what to watch. 😺
04 / Background
Resume
Education
Western Washington University
B.S. Computer Science · August 2018
Selected work
Burger Builder
Redux-driven SPA for building custom orders, with persistent state across refreshes.
This site
Personal portfolio and app playground, built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.