# 💾 James Irwin

> Senior software engineer at Apple

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesirwin

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States
Built a rich text editor for a new internal collaboration/documentation wiki platform. Led front-end development through launch, managing team and data migration

Built a real-time, multi-region collaboration back-end for the editor (CRDT-based)

Contracted through Advantis Global

### Frontend Engineer @ Double Line, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas, United States
Architected and implemented the front-end of a greenfield edtech platform for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The core of the project was a data intake interface with extensive validation reporting

Expanded my role into DevOps by establishing CI/CD pipelines and IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

### Frontend Engineer @ ClickTime
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States
Implemented features on a time tracking and reporting SaaS application while establishing UI systems and standards. My refactor of the front-end build process led to 15% smaller bundle size, better caching, and better devX

Managed contractors as engineer and product manager in the development of a new mobile app

### Software Engineer @ iBEAM Systems, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Boise, Idaho, United States
Implemented desktop and mobile web clients for viewing archives of high-resolution images

Established new cloud back-end, getting 10x faster performance by moving to a serverless solution: data intake went from >2 seconds to under 200ms

### Software Engineer Intern @ iBEAM Systems, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Boise, Idaho, United States
Helped design and build updated versions of existing web- and desktop-based software, designed and built custom company-branded webpages, maintained and monitored company servers, and wrote system documentation.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts
St. John's College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/contactjames
- Website: https://james-irwin.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22