# James Bresnahan

> Software Engineer

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesbresnahan

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Pax8
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ BillGO
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Denver, Colorado, United States
Delivering secure, scalable, and cloud-based payment systems.

### Software Engineer II (Dish Grand Central) @ DISH Network
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Denver, Colorado, United States
Developing a data-driven, AWS cloud-native application.
* Primarily programmed in Python, SQL and React JS. 
* Implement serverless architecture patterns with AWS Lambda, API Gateway and Docker. 
* Manage large scale ETL data processes through AWS Glue, Apache Spark and AWS S3 Storage.
* Design and Deploy various database solutions using AWS RDS Postgres/MySQL and NoSQL AWS DynamoDB.

### Software Developer I @ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | St Louis, Missouri, United States
Developed a financial web application for the US Treasury
* Full-stack software developer, part of a fully agile team
* Leveraged Java Spring micro-services and an Angular 9+ frontend UI
* Optimized SQL query performance
* Served as DevOps Champion, implementing automated deployments of microservices across development environments through Python and Ansible

### Associate Software Developer @ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater St. Louis Area

### Apprentice Web Developer (Contract) @ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater St. Louis Area

### Project Manager @ icon Design and Fixtures
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019
-  Work with high end fashion retail brands in store fixture development and implementation.
-  Manage projects of budgets between $100,000-$1,200,000
-  Collaborate between store design teams and production facilities
-  Supervise and coordinate on-site installs 
-  Create budgets, submit bids and track costs.

### ESL Teacher @ Comunicorp
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Santiago, Chile
- Taught daily lessons on-site to the employees of client companies, such as Siemens and Television Nacional 
- Developed course curricula
- Conducted incoming student evaluations.

### English Teacher @ DuocUC
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Santiago, Chile
- Taught daily lessons at a technical university to adult students.
- Developed lesson plans and evaluated student progress.
- Assisted in the government sponsored CORFO English program.

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Virginia
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Charlottesville, Virginia Area
- Teaching assistant for the School of Architecture's course ARCH 1010.
- Introduced students to architectural staples, such as diagramming and information synthesis
- Planned and led weekly discussion sections to dissect and clarify themes of the course. 
- Developed assignments and graded weekly essays.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Architecture
University of Virginia
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/james-bresnahan-024779a8

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Last updated: 2026-03-22