# James Conklin

> Full Stack Developer at ForUsAll

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesconklin

I'm a coder of eight years and a life-long geek. My studies have taken me from an initial love of Latin to an appreciation of linguistic structure and finally to an awe of the expressiveness and utility of programming languages. 

Unsolved problems keep me awake at night, so I strive to solve them, to learn something from them, and to enjoy myself in the process.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ ForUsAll
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
Redesigned core ETL pipeline to be durable against errors in input data and visible and usable internally by our operations team.

Interviewed applicants and led and mentored junior developers in engineering best practices.

### Infrastructure Engineer @ ForUsAll
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024
Oversaw migration of core applications from EC2 instances to Kubernetes deployments. Improved stability and scalability. 

Rearchitected deployed networks to minimize public surface area and secure private applications behind a private VPN. Ensured continuity of operations during pandemic-era remote work.

Hardened application security as part of regular penetration testing and an ongoing SOC-1 and SOC-2 audit.

### Full Stack Developer @ ForUsAll
Jan 2017 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Developed full-stack experience with ReactJS and Ruby on Rails to allow 401(k) plan sponsors to validate, upload, and track payroll files.
 
Created 360° integrations between payroll, record keepers, and our own validations. Defeated anti-automation measures.

Led a team to execute on a new design for our corporate website.

### Software Engineer @ Sigma Computing
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Developed WYSIWYG Widgets for the DSL editor used by clients to write custom queries.

### Junior Developer @ Penguin Computing
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Fremont / San Francisco
Prototyped hardware-accelerated virtual desktops by implementing on-demand GPU passthrough on a commercial OpenStack cluster.

Developed Ansible playbooks to rapidly deploy on-prem clusters for developer environments and customer demos.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science
McGill University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jamesdconklin

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Last updated: 2026-04-05