James Perkins

James Perkins has a diverse work experience in the field of software development and technology support. Their most recent role was as a Sr Developer Advocate at Clerk.dev, where they started in June 2022. Prior to that, they worked as a Developer Advocate at Forestry.io from May 2021 to June 2022.

From 2019 to 2021, James worked at Plaid, first as a Technical Support Engineer and later as a Developer Support Engineer Manager. James also worked as a Mentor at Codementor from October 2018 to February 2021, providing 1:1 live mentoring and freelance work in various programming languages.

Before that, James worked as an Application Developer at Coastal Credit Union from February 2018 to August 2019. James also gained experience as an Artificial Intelligence Developer at Heath Games from September 2017 to February 2018, working on a story-driven first-person shooter game.

In earlier roles, James worked as a Business Intelligence Engineer at IGT from June 2016 to February 2018. James was also a Software Developer at Upwork from January 2013 to January 2018 and held roles as a Software Engineer and Associate Software Engineer at Dealertrack Technologies and Dealertrack, respectively.

Throughout their career, James has utilized various programming languages and technologies, including Java, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and more. James has experience with version control systems like CVS, Subversion, and GitHub, as well as issue tracking tools like JIRA and Salesforce.

James Perkins completed their Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Information Technology with a software emphasis from Western Governors University. James attended the university from 2012 to 2016. In addition to their degree, they obtained several certifications including the Web Design Professional certification from CIW in August 2015, the Perl Specialist certification from CIW in February 2015, and the Web Foundation Associate certification from CIW in August 2012. James also earned the CompTIA A+ certification from CompTIA in July 2015. James has additional certifications in CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Project+, and CompTIA Security+, but the specific dates of when they obtained these certifications are not provided.