Subject

JamesAbraham

17+Years in service

Software Engineering Manager · AI, Data & Platform Engineering

I build the governed plumbing AI products run on, then keep the teams shipping against it.

DomicileDenver, CO

Class codeAI · Data · Platform

Effective2009 — present

Systems on file13 · 9 owned

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What I built, wired together

Every box is a system I shipped or own. They are stacked in the order data actually moves through them — intake at the top, the org that ships it at the bottom. Open one to see what it does and what it moved.

Flow keyDataControlAudit evidence

Hover to trace · click to open · arrow keys to walk

1Intake

2Governance

3Platform

4Product surface

5Org & delivery

No system openPick a box to read what was built, what it runs on, and what it moved.

1.1 · Owned · CompScienceCarrier integrationsAmTrust claims and policy APIs plus the live Nationwide data feed.

1.2 · Shipped · CompScienceVideo ingestion & event detectionReplaced brittle legacy ingestion with an event-driven pipeline at 10x throughput.

1.3 · Owned · CompScienceAI document extractionTurns ACORD forms, loss runs, and mod sheets into structured class code, payroll, and loss data.

2.1 · Owned · CompScienceMCP data access gatewayEvery AI agent request authenticated, logged to an audit trail, and labeled with a data classification.

2.2 · Owned · CompScienceAudit trail & SOC 2 evidenceFive separate logging implementations consolidated into one append-only standard.

3.1 · Owned · CompScienceAI app platform (Nova)Non-engineers describe the tool they need and get back a deployed app wired to company data.

3.2 · Owned · CompScienceMedallion data platformPHI/PII from North American and EU clients, governed for Data Science under HIPAA and GDPR.

3.3 · Shipped · CompScienceMonolith modernization200+ untyped REST endpoints migrated to fully typed procedures; legacy admin app retired.

4.1 · Owned · CompScienceAI in the underwriting workflowAgentic submission triage, generated executive risk summaries, and an in-product assistant.

4.2 · Shipped · CompScienceUnderwriting workbenchSped up risk assessments and streamlined renewals; contributed to a 15% revenue lift.

4.3 · Shipped · CompScienceClient reporting automationInternal tooling that automated client reporting and cut manual overhead 40%.

5.1 · Owned · CompScienceTeam & delivery10 engineers across the US and Vietnam on trunk-based development, 85%+ sprint completion.

5.2 · Owned · CompScienceAgent toolchain & release pathClaude adoption across engineering plus one gated release path agents drive as reliably as people.

§2

Rating worksheet

Numbers I can defend. Each row carries how it was measured, because a figure without a basis is decoration.

Key metrics with the basis of each measurement
Value	Measure	Basis	System
10x	Video ingestion throughput	Event-driven rearchitecture measured against the legacy pipeline it replaced	1.2 ↗
90%	Evidence clip processing time cut	Per-clip generation time before and after optimization, same input volume	1.2 ↗
200+	Endpoints moved to typed procedures	Untyped REST surface migrated during monolith modernization	3.3 ↗
40%	Team efficiency after the pipeline rebuild	Delivery throughput after the Linear, LaunchDarkly, Sentry, Trivy and Atlantis pipeline landed	5.2 ↗
85%+	Sprint completion rate held	Rolling average across a 10-engineer distributed team while owning dual P0 initiatives	5.1 ↗
15%	Revenue lift contribution	Attributed to faster risk assessment and renewal workflows in the underwriting workbench	4.2 ↗

9 more measures sit on the systems they belong to. Press ⌘K and type a number to find one.

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Schedule of capabilities

Architecture and infrastructure first, because that is where I spend the decisions. Marked items are the ones I reach for most; the rest I have shipped with and would again.

Architecture & system designHow the systems are shaped before anyone writes code

Event-driven architectureDistributed systems designAPI designMicroservicesData governance & access controlMonolith decompositionMedallion / lakehouse data architectureHigh availability & fault toleranceAudit and compliance architectureMulti-region PHI/PII data residencyHealthcare interoperability (FHIR)Integration and middleware designSchema and domain modelingTechnical roadmappingArchitecture decision records

Cloud platformsWhere it runs

AWSLambdaECS FargateS3Aurora PostgreSQLRedshiftSQSStep FunctionsDynamoDBRDSEC2CloudFrontIAMAuth0 / OIDCAzure SQLAzure DevOpsDigitalOcean dropletsDigitalOcean Container RegistryDigitalOcean Spaces

Infrastructure & operationsWhat keeps it running

KubernetesDockerTerraformCI/CDObservabilityAnsibleGitHub ActionsAtlantisCaddyGrafanaPrometheusSentryRabbitMQContainer registriesBlue/green and gated releasesInfrastructure as code review

LanguagesWritten in production, not just tried

TypeScriptPythonJavaC#SQLJavaScriptC++PHPBash

Backend & webThe frameworks and protocols in between

Node.jsBuntRPCGraphQLRESTSpring BootHonoExpressMuleSoft / AnypointReact / ReduxAstroNext.jsAngularDrizzle ORMZodWebSockets

AI & MLApplied, in shipped products

LLM application developmentAgentic workflowsModel Context Protocol serversAI data access governanceClaude APIOpenAI APIAI document extractionComputer vision event detectionPrompt and output evaluationRetrieval over governed viewsAgent tooling in CI

DataWarehousing, movement and compliance

Medallion architecture warehousingETL / ELT pipelinesPHI/PII compliance (HIPAA, GDPR)PostgreSQLMySQLRedshiftFHIR and healthcare interoperabilityData governanceAccess classificationPartner and carrier data feeds

DeliveryHow work reaches production

Trunk-based developmentSOC 2 controlsFeature flaggingLinearLaunchDarklySentrySnykTrivyCodeRabbitMixpanelAutomated regressionAudit evidence

LeadershipRunning the team that does it

Engineering managementOnshore and offshore teamsOKR planningVendor and carrier negotiationAgile deliveryMentoringHiring and interviewingCross-team technical directionIncident response

Every item here is searchable. Press ⌘K and type one to see where it was used.

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Terms of service

Coverage periods first, most recent at the top. The overlaps are real — the consulting practice ran alongside full-time work for thirteen years. Pick a company to jump to what I did there.

Company

CompScience

AI-driven workers compensation insurance

Software Engineering Manager2024-04 → present · Remote

Promoted 2xSenior Software Engineer→Lead Senior Software Engineer→Software Engineering Manager

Own the platform AI surface: internal AI app platform, governed agent data access over MCP, document extraction, and AI inside the underwriting workflow.
Drove Claude adoption across engineering — most coding and review throughput now runs through it, with agent instructions committed to the repositories.
Led the medallion architecture data warehouse ingesting PHI/PII from North American and EU clients under HIPAA and GDPR.
Introduced the company audit logging standard behind SOC 2 and made audit instrumentation a condition of shipping.
Manage 10 engineers across the US and Vietnam at an 85%+ sprint completion rate and a sub-24-hour review SLA.
Before managing, led an offshore team of 8 engineers building the internal tooling that automated client reporting and cut manual overhead 40%.
Added GraphQL alongside REST to make the API flexible enough for frontend, backend and data science teams to iterate independently.

Science 37

Decentralized clinical trial platform

Lead Senior Fullstack Engineer2021-05 → 2023-12 · Remote

Promoted 1xSenior Fullstack Engineer→Lead Senior Fullstack Engineer

Promoted to Lead after a year, then led data development for the flagship decentralized clinical trial platform, delivering for partners including Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, and BioMarin.
Built middleware and integration layers with Spring Boot microservices and MuleSoft, transforming data into FHIR for EHR consumption.
Put EHR data in the hands of clinical teams so remote and in-clinic nurses could run trials, studies, and treatment events on accurate, interoperable patient data.
Delivered across React/Redux, Angular, Node.js and Express with CI/CD in Python, Terraform, GitHub, and AWS.
Recognized for documentation that sped up issue resolution across teams.

M3 Accounting

Hospitality accounting and business intelligence

Software Developer II2018-03 → 2021-05 · Duluth, GA

Designed and built the enterprise data warehouse on Docker, Grafana, Prometheus, RabbitMQ and a C# service, boosting revenue 15% and cutting resource costs, with Ansible automation streamlining operations.
Built a secure, standardized enterprise API platform on MuleSoft and Anypoint for partner data exchange, then automated deployments so it scaled with the business intelligence product.
Created a multi-format file import service that reduced manual labor costs 20% and integrated cleanly with Marriott, Hilton and IHG Hotels.
Delivered the integrations connecting internal applications to external vendor and partner systems, standardizing how data moved between the business and its partners.
Earned the MuleSoft Certified Developer credential in 2019, the year MuleSoft CONNECT opened its global roadshow in Atlanta.
Helped secure long-term contracts with Trump Towers and Hyatt.

Sage

Enterprise accounting software

Software Developer I2015-11 → 2018-05 · Greater Atlanta Area

Resolved software and Pervasive SQL issues for enterprise accounting clients.
Supported staging and production deployments and led database query optimizations.

Adult Swim, Turner Broadcasting

Broadcast and streaming media

Software Developer I2013-01 → 2014-10 · Atlanta, GA

Built video streaming in JavaScript on a microservices architecture.
Shipped mobile games in Unity and web features with React and PHP.

CodePriority LLC

My own company — independent consulting

Founder & Principal Engineer2010-03 → 2023-12 · Independent · Remote

Founded and ran my own consultancy alongside full-time engineering roles for thirteen years.
Built and maintained 40+ client websites and applications, owning the work end to end — scoping, build, hosting and the client relationship.
Consulting engagements with Coinbase on API platform work and with IBM.
The brand this site is published under.

IBM

Security services

Cyber Security Analyst2009-01 → 2009-10 · Atlanta, GA

Computer forensics, IBM Domino, MS Exchange and Active Directory administration including group policy and permissions.
Network security across firewalls, switches, routers, domain administration and topology, on Windows and Linux.

§5

In the open

Most of what I build now is private or internal. What is public is here, pulled from GitHub.

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Followers12

Public repositories1

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Everything else

Private

Six more projects run in private repositories, including a live fantasy football platform and two collection apps.

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Open a file

I am open to engineering leadership roles working on AI platforms, data infrastructure, or the governance layer between them. Fastest way to reach me is email.

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