Jim McGaw

Summary

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer and published technical author based in San Francisco. Jack of many trades, master of a few. Happiest when learning or teaching.

Experience

• Engineering Lead, Invitae - San Francisco, CA (September 2021 - September 2022)
• Senior Software Engineer, Invitae - San Francisco, CA (September 2020 - September 2021)
• Senior Software Engineer, 23andMe, Inc - Sunnyvale, CA (September 2016 - March 2020)
• Software Engineer, RightScale - Santa Barbara, CA (June 2012 - March 2016)
• Various Startup Ventures and Hobby Projects - Santa Barbara, CA (2008 - June 2012)
• Apress Author, "Beginning Django E-Commerce"

Skills

• API Design
• Front-end application development
• Production systems monitoring
• Systems and network performance tuning
• MLOps

Programming Languages

• Python
• JavaScript (ES5, ES6)
• TypeScript

Frameworks

• Django
• Django REST Framework
• Flask
• SQLAlchemy
• React / Redux
• MLFlow

Tools / Systems

• Docker
• kubernetes
• Linux
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• bash
• Amazon Web Services

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Michigan State University