# James A. > Senior Software Security Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesa With over 10 years of software engineering experience across various industries, I am a senior software security engineer at Rockwell Automation, a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. I design and deliver security solutions for industrial automation products, using Kubernetes infrastructure and cloud technology. I also automate manual security processes, conduct security audits, and upskill my teammates. My mission is to create secure and reliable software that enhances the performance, efficiency, and sustainability of industrial systems and processes. I have a proven track record of integrating APIs, replatforming software applications onto newer technologies, integrating microservices, and providing engineering support for cross-platform applications. I am best known for my functional testing, troubleshooting, collaboration, and initiative skills. I am passionate about learning new technologies, solving complex problems, and delivering high-quality products. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Security Engineer @ Rockwell Automation Jan 2022 – Present | United States Design and deliver security solutions for Industrial Automation. Deliver product features using kubernetes infrastructure and cloud technology. Automate manual security processes. Perform security audits as a product security engineer for various products. Upskill teammates. Generative AI 🤖 ### Software Engineer @ DriveTime Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | United States A/B Testing Payment Calculation for online used car sales ### Software Engineer @ Waffle Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | United States • Worked with the marketing team, senior developers, and integration partners to integrate the Ladder Life insurance Rest API into Waffleinsurance.com. Used React Native for Web/ReactJS to integrate the API to dynamically generate input forms, each form could have 1 or more questions and there could be up to 80 forms per user to fill out. This integration increased the monthly average price of policies sold for all Waffle products, since life insurance policies brought in the highest insurance premiums • Consumed Figma designs provided by a UX designer to rebrand/redesign multiple existing React Native for Web/ReactJS components across Waffleinsurance.com to give them a modern look and feel to attract new customers or retain existing customers. Used the concepts of adaptive layouts, fluid layouts and responsive layouts to deliver mobile-friendly user interfaces since most users used mobile web • Installed, configured, and wrote the initial Cypress E2E TypeScript tests for the 3 most actively purchased products, giving the team more confidence in making changes to the codebase. Often wrote automated TypeScript unit tests • Installed and configured Sentry web browser real-time error monitoring and user interface web vitals performance monitoring ### Software Engineer II @ Rockwell Automation Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area • Frequently delivered Kubernetes/Helm features for backend microservices for both Docker Desktop Linux based containers and a Jenkins continuous integration environment using YAML/PowerShell/Bash/K8s API. Implemented 4 of the 10 initial micro-service Kubernetes pods and delivered significant features to the containerized, continuous integration environment. This helped the company move forward with the backend Kubernetes redesign for a large, high-profile project • Frequently provided engineering support by investigating and root causing Kubernetes/container issues or E2E test failures on a cross-platform, Electron-based application on a Windows OS • Occasionally delivered authentication and authorization features using Angular 9/RxJS/Typescript/GraphQL/Kubernetes and automated unit tests. Sometimes worked with the UX/VD team and other feature teams to plan and design easy to use and functional UIs • Occasionally provided feedback to co-workers on secure application design to help reduce the attack surface for customer facing features • Occasionally helped team members come up with more maintainable, simple technical solutions ### Software Developer @ Northcentral University Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Phoenix, Arizona Area • Took on a lead front-end developer role to help lead, re-architect, and successfully launch a high-profile $3M+ re-platform of Northcentral University’s entire student payment website onto a newer JQuery/Bootstrap/.NET/SQL 3-tier web stack. The newly re-platformed student payment website now serves 5 other NCU web applications and 10,000+ users • Helped redesign and successfully launched Northcentral University’s public facing student applicant website as a mobile friendly website. Redesigned the Apply Now, Demographics, Educational Info and DocuSign registration pages as mobile friendly web pages for display on both mobile phones and desktops to help reach a larger pool of student applicants and help modernize the company’s external facing portfolio • Worked across the full web stack with team members to build out cross-browser compatible, responsive web user interfaces using AJAX/JQuery/HTML5/CSS3/SCSS/Bootstrap 4 to help provide a snappier, more responsive, more user-friendly experience to improve user productivity ### Tech. Systems Analyst, Subject Matter Expert @ Intel Corporation Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Chandler, Arizona, United States • Improved existing web UIs and an ETL interface by enabling the 'external' flow of both finished and unfinished goods for a high-value customer • Owned the 'defaulting' logic within a specific subject area of the project including the metadata, procedures, views and their respective web UI's • Tested and debugged multiple data-driven test cases involving thousands of rows of metadata, dozens of procedures, a dozen database views, numerous relational database tables containing millions of records and six web UIs • Interacted weekly with cross-geo or cross-functional internal end-users to drive and implement data feature requests. Tested and ran SQL update scripts and metadata changes required to alter or enable the flow of data ### Full Stack Application Developer @ Intel Corporation Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Chandler, Arizona • Team Award – Implemented meta-data driven data and user interface features that enabled revenue capacity of up to $2M per acquisition valued at a total of $1B or more of projected yearly revenue. Enabling the shipment of 25+ million internal/external products, supporting over ~900 million units of business • AngularJS/.NET/SQL – Built 10+ UI’s using AngularJS, displaying large sets of Excel-like data with edit functionality to help automate tedious inventory calculations and discontinue manual business processes so that key business inputs could be delivered quickly to help generate revenue • Led and orchestrated multiple successful user interface release/migrations over a six-month time span as an assistant technical lead • Security – Researched and implemented CSRF token security using AngularJS and the ASP.NET Razor token security API. Wrote parameterized SQL queries. Implemented custom role security authorization to support legacy architecture ### Independent Contractor - Developer @ Northern California Adaptive Living Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 MS Access based and custom-tailored employee, scheduling, payroll application. Code Languages: Visual Basic & SQL Phase 1: Input and input forms Completed and participated in phase 1 of 3. ### Tutor/Teaching Assistant @ California State University, Chico Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Successfully provided much needed assistance to computer science students in the lab section of lower/upper division computer science courses. (Programming & Algorithms 1/2/3, Operating Systems and Compilers) ### Intelligent Systems Lab Assistant @ California State University, Chico Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Chico State Univ. ISL Lab Lab Assistant for the Intelligent Systems-Artificial Intelligence Section of Chico State University. Job Duties: Troubleshooting hardware and software issues, debugging NXC code, outreach for the ISL and more. ### CyberSecurity Camp - Capture The Flag Participant @ San Jose State University Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Jose State University Tactical and exploit attack centered capture the flag team based competition. ### Program Analyst Intern @ E. & J. Gallo Winery Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 o Conduct research and Write technical documentation o Develop systems and data flow diagrams o Work with end users to troubleshoot software problems o Troubleshoot and debug software code o Develop new and enhanced code, scripts and/or SQL o Unit testing software code and end user software testing ### Website Administration Intern @ KCSC Radio Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | California State University Chico Website administration internship centering on maintaining a wordpress website. Providing critical troubleshooting analysis. And also providing consistent content updates to the website whilst working with a small web development team. ### Community Service Volunteer @ Computers For Classrooms Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Process and Strip Recycled Computers. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Information Systems California State University, Chico Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ### Chico Degree; B.S in Computer Information Systems, Minor in Business Admin. California State University ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Information Systems Chico State University ### Computer Information Systems in Computer Science Shasta College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/james-sse --- Source: https://flows.cv/jamesa JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jamesa/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22