# James Fisk

> Revenue Driving Engineer

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesfisk

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2024 – Present
Powering the subscriptions infrastructure that drives revenue

### Engineering Manager, Growth (JavaScript/Typescript, C#) @ Rev
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas, United States
Led the technical vision and implementation of solutions for an audio and
video transcription company, focusing on product design, client
engagement, roadmap development, and quality control. This involved
close collaboration with various teams and client communication.

Managed two Agile (Kanban) teams totaling up to 12 software engineers, focusing on
creating well-balanced and effective team structures.

Headed the web experience/growth team, improving Rev.com's interface
with technologies like React, Node.js, Contentful CMS, and Next.js, boosting web performance and conversion rates.

Launched and maintained media-related services like captions and subtitles,
contributing to multimillion-dollar annual revenues.

### Staff Software Engineer, Growth @ Rev
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas Area
Acted as team lead on a high-performing pod during a period of rapid growth and organizational change, resulting in an expansion of the engineering department from fewer than 50 to over 120 developers.

Led the building and enhancement of new products like Auto-Transcription, a commoditized version of Rev's leading speech-to-text engine, and the MathElf iOS app for instantaneous tutoring, and Rev Live Captions application for Zoom. Used C#, JavaScript, React, Python, and Swift.

Monitored and increased critical operational metrics, such as reducing the time spent waiting for code review by 28% and reducing bug reports by 12%, through directed process alterations utilizing Agile principles, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) methodologies, employing technologies such as Jira, Git, and Jenkins, and managing metrics such as code review time and bug report count.

### Software Engineer @ Rev
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Target
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
-Built Grails web application and RESTful API to expose crucial performance metrics of Target's Hadoop big data cluster in a team using an Agile/Scrum methodology.
-Developed with JavaScript toolsets (jQuery, D3), Bootstrap, Solr, MySQL, Apache Tomcat and other technologies touching each layer of full-stack web development.
-Interfaced daily with a production-scale big data platform running MapReduce, Spark and Pig jobs.

### Technical Support Assistant @ UT Intercollegiate Athletics IT Services
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
-Worked with Active Directory to help maintain large Windows domain of users
-Assisted clients with technical problems


## Education
### B.A in Computer Science; English Honors
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22