James P.

I'm a senior full-stack contractor with deep experience building and shipping production systems. I specialize in pragmatic, maintainable solutions, and I've spent years owning projects end to end, from infrastructure to frontend. I've sucessfully delivered projects in the ed-tech, film, nonprofit, and business automation industries (and more). Open to ongoing part-time contracts and well-scoped one-off projects. I'm on the West Coast until June 20 Recently working with: Cloud & Devops: AWS (ECS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, Cloudfront), Docker, DigitalOcean Backend: Node.js, Postgres, Restify / Fastify, Directus Frontend: Vue.js with Vite AI / LLM: RAG pipelines (pgvector, OpenAI embeddings, Claude), Chat-based UIs / AI assistants (Claude, Kimi, Gemini)