James Sumners Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

On January 19, 2023 Mezmo.com reduced their workforce by 24 people. I was one of the 24 impacted.

San Jose, California, Us

I was a member of the ecosystem team. This team was responsible for making sure APIs and libraries were available for customers to interact with the platform. I helped finish aspects of the API gateway and get it into production. I also helped maintain their OpenTelemetry exporter, and developed a new customer facing API to facilitate quering data usage as it would pertain to account billing.

Knock was forced to lay off roughly 50% of its workforce. I was part of the percentage affected. For details on what led to the mass lay off, please read the CEO's message: https://www.seanblack.com/blog/wild-ride-from-2b-to-220m

New York, Ny, Us

Worked with the platform team to migrate the platform from Heroku to AWS. Built REST API services to manage real estate transactions and offers, integrate data with third party systems, and built out the backend lending platform during the pivot from PropTech to FinTech.Led a weekly backend forum for engineers to discuss issues, raise ideas, and generally bond as a team.

New York, Ny, Us

Joined immediately after the Series B raise to help establish the foundation for the backend platform. I built frameworks and libraries to facilitate building of REST API services and AWS Lambda functions. I established the CI/CD infrastructure for the backend portion of the platform.