James Mak
Owner at ViñaCru
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolJames M is a lead software engineer in Austin with 10 years of experience building user-friendly web applications and identity-focused backend systems. Currently at Dow Jones, he leads enhancements to in-house identity management using OAuth2/OpenID Connect, JWTs, and manages AWS infrastructure via Terraform while operating across Node.js and Java with DynamoDB and PostgreSQL. He has a strong full‑stack background from Angular front-ends to backend integrations at healthcare and traffic systems companies, with an emphasis on security, data handling, and pragmatic tooling for migration, logging, and debugging. Trained as an electrical and electronics engineer, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on delivery and a habit of rapidly learning new ecosystems like Mulesoft and Okta to meet evolving product needs. Notably, he pairs product-centric design from conception through implementation with a focus on scalable, auditable identity and data solutions.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
HKCEE, HKCEE at St. Paul's Co-educational CollegeB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Columbia UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Northfield Mount HermonM.S., Telecommunications, M.S., Telecommunications at Boston University
English, Chinese, Chinese, German
Stackoverflow
120reputation
16kreached
1answer
12questions
Github Skills (45)
angular9
flask8
telemetry8
api8
polyline8
material-design8
assembler8
flask-application8
monitoring7
socket-io7
distributed-tracing7
socket7
flask-socketio7
websocket7
angular-material6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jamesworkdesk/MIPS32_Compiler
Oct 2016 - May 2021
An Assembler written in C++ for MIPS ISA
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 7 months
assemblercppmips
JamesHearts/Game_Log
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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