# James Foley > Software Engineer Location: Greater Phoenix Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesfoley Software Engineer with a primary focus on building robust, scalable web applications, and with hands-on DevOps experience in AWS and CI/CD automation. My background spans front-end and back-end development using TypeScript, (VueJS & React), C# (.Net), and Python, as well as managing databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB). In my current role, I’ve supported application teams by implementing Drone by Harness CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code with AWS CDK, and serverless architectures using IOT, Lambda, SQS, S3. While my core expertise is in software development, I’ve developed practical DevOps skills that improve deployment speed, cost-efficiency, and reliability—experience I’m excited to grow further. Tech Highlights: • Development: TypeScript, C#, Python, React, Vue, ASP.NET Core • Cloud & Infrastructure (DevOps): AWS (VPC, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, CloudFront, IAM, EC2, Route53, Elastic Beanstalk, IoT, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS, S3) • CI/CD: Github, Drone by Harness, Infrastructure as Code (CDK) • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona Jan 2022 – Present | Phoenix, Arizona, United States • Automated infrastructure provisioning using AWS CDK (Infrastructure as Code), enabling reproducible environments and scaled deployments. • Migrated applications across AWS environments with CI/CD pipelines using Harness CI, enabling consistent, automated deployments aligned with modern language upgrades. • Restructured MSSQL into a denormalized DynamoDB schema, reducing costs while improving performance. • Re-architected legacy .NET/MS SQL sync processes into a serverless AWS (Lambda + DynamoDB) solution, boosting reliability and maintainability. • Built and managed a compliance platform with AWS AppSync (GraphQL backend) and Vue.js frontend, ensuring OSHA compliance for safety inspections. ### AI Services Engineer @ AppZen Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Phoenix, Arizona Area AppZen is a startup company that performs audits on financial documents using artificial intelligence (AI). I was responsible for integrating with customer systems to retrieve expense reports, contracts, invoices and purchase orders as well as assisting other internal engineering teams by utilizing multiple technologies. • Build, deploy and support integrations between AppZen and other ERP platforms • Design and engineer solutions for new and existing applications integrations • Maintain monitoring tools for failures management and alerts • Partner directly with internal stakeholders and technical teams on systems integrations • Provide technical and design expertise to the project team regarding application integration solutions and problem resolution • Create RPA solutions using Puppeteer in order to make various workflow enhancements • Process the output of our AI models and apply these results to custom scenarios for different customers Leveraged the following Amazon Web Services capabilities: • AWS Lambda (Java, NodeJS) • AWS SQS and SNS • AWS S3 and RDS • AWS SFTP Service ### Full Stack Web Developer @ Focusloop Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area ### Health Care Specialist @ US Army Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Killeen/Temple, Texas Area Team leader for last two years. Provide and oversee the medical care of soldiers to aid in maintaining deployment-ready status. Maintain and train new health care specialists in unit standard life-saving skills and procedures. Train non-medical personnel in basic life-saving skills. Provide care and minor surgeries in a clinical setting with excellent reviews for bedside manner. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Biomedical Informatics Arizona State University ### Full Stack Web Development Coding Dojo Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/james-r-foley --- Source: https://flows.cv/jamesfoley JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jamesfoley/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29