James Sowder Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas Area

• At Spectatin, I specialize in building AI-driven tools and business efficiency apps that deliver rapid, tangible results. As the lead and founding AI engineer at a stealth venture studio, I’ve led cross-functional.
• AI Engineering & Strategy: Architected and deployed AI-powered systems, including automated evaluation tools and generative LLMs. Regularly provided AI strategy that influenced product direction and engineering.
• Rapid Prototyping: Consistently delivered MVPs within days, enabling startups to iterate quickly. My scrappy approach using tools like Google Sheets, AppScript, and AppSheet has allowed teams to scale quickly with.
• Full-Stack Development: Built end-to-end solutions using JavaScript (React, Next.js, Node.js), and implemented analytics systems like PostHog and Amplitude to create a data-driven culture.
• Team Leadership & Hiring: Recruited and onboarded engineers, ensuring the AI team’s success while sharing best practices studio-wide.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: I’ve helped startups achieve in weeks what typically takes months, and I’m exploring the possibility of turning this efficiency-focused, AI-powered methodology into my own business.This.

Austin, Texas Area

JavaScript engineer for the PayPal Summary page, where all logged in PayPal customers land and receive a personalized and performant (<-- my focus) experiencehttps://www.paypal.com/myaccount/summary/- Server-side React, RxJS single page app (SPA)- Highly scaled: summary page processes 150-220 requests per second depending on load (~14 million request per.

Austin, Texas Area

Building software and people the best that I can. - Servant leader to 7-15 full-stack engineers spanning 5 teams in a matrix-style highly Agile engineering department.- Focused on people first, with my proudest accomplishment being twofold: helping engineers advance in their careers and revamping the engineering career path and performance management.

Austin, Texas

Changing the way we deliver skills-based education, with a focus on outcomes. Currently achieving 90 NPS with graduates of an intense JavaScript immersion program. Continually improving. I was quickly promoted to lead and manage the Austin instruction team after joining the company. My time is split about 50/50 on managing/engineering.I manage a team of.

Austin, TX

Mobile first and UX focused developer using Swift for native iOS development and Appcelerator Titanium for prototyping and cross-platform app development. I'm part of a small, entrepreneurial team called Local Labs. We're creating a vendor focused mobile app at XO Group for our wedding vendors. I practice design thinking and rapid prototyping. My goal is.

Austin, TX

Acktie focused on the problem space of connecting the online and offline world, or the internet of things. As a co-founder, my partner and I hypothesized that we could create a more connected community by working with neighborhoods and bringing them together via in a connected app (online) and neighborhood (offline) things you'd interact with (e.g..

Austin, Texas Area

Developed both the front-end and back-end of eBay Resolution Center. Leading the way in a mobile-first strategy.Go-to innovator, making a difference in the Austin office through mobile app development and evangelism of effective innovation practices.Currently practicing Java, JavaScript with AngularJS, CSS leveraging Bootstrap.js, HTML5, and at times using.

Leader in innovation metrics, patent submissions, and known change agent for innovation execution through development of mobile apps in my own time.Developed automated tests in Java and upheld quality standards for our world class Java based presentation tier rewrite that enables our internal customers to develop applications easier and faster than before.

Developed and tested Dell Support Center 2 (DSC2), a comprehensive automated support tool packaged with all consumer Dell systems - 15 million users and growing. Created and utilized a lifecycle process for all DSC2 content (100+ small development projects).

Developed a complete documentation system using SalesLogix, VB, HTML, SQL, PDF, and Crystal Reports, reducing time spent by employees and customers on tedious paperwork by over 50%. Developed internal applications to assist with housing costs (savings of $200,000/year), locks (savings of 5-10 hours per assignment; 1,000-2,000 assignments per year), QA.