James Mcmahon
Lead Software Engineer at Initial Capacity, Inc.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJames Mcmahon is a Lead Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and modernizing mission-critical systems across startups and large enterprises from Chicago. He blends hands-on delivery (greenfield apps, cloud-native infrastructures, and event-driven microservices) with pragmatic agile, TDD, and lean product practices to drive predictable outcomes and faster feedback loops. A proven technical stabilizer, he has turned around struggling teams and shaped engineering strategy and engagement plans at enterprise scale, including work for major financial and pharmaceutical clients. As an early senior hire at boutique consultancies and a core engineer at high-growth platforms, he pairs CTO-level advisory with day-to-day implementation and mentorship. Quick to master new domains, he also brings uncommon breadth—from real-time GIS and bioinformatics platforms to multiplayer game launch and high-throughput Kafka/Knative systems—plus a track record of embedding modern delivery tooling like CDK and FluxCD.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Bridgewater State University
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
JamesMcMahon/play-games-plugin-for-unity
Sep 2016 - Jan 2019
Google Play Games plugin for Unity
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
gamesgoogle-play-gamesgoogle-playplay-gamesunity
OpenBEL/cytoscape-plugins
Mar 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:288 commits in 4 months
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