# James McCullough

> Software Engineer at Nuro

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

I'm a full-stack software engineer with a strong passion for building creative solutions to challenging problems. Away from the keyboard, you can find me playing guitar, drinking coffee and enjoying the outdoors.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Nuro
Jan 2023 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Nuro is a leading autonomous vehicle company. Our mission is to better everyday life through robotics and strengthen local communities with our electric, zero-occupant autonomous delivery vehicles.

### Software Engineer @ Federato
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Led the design and development of a full stack web-based email client that allowed users to link emails to accounts in Federato and automatically pull attachments into Federato’s file server. (React/GraphQL/NestJS/IMAP/SMTP)
- Developed image carousel component for Federato’s internal design system. (React)
- Made significant contributions to numerous client ETL pipelines to support integrations with 3rd party services, fix bugs and extend capabilities of existing pipelines. (Python/Django)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Mushroom.gg
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Mushroom.gg
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Full-stack development with React/GraphQL/Node/Postgres of critical web features including profiles, comments, posts, hashtags and a digital store supporting user-generated content.
- Implemented core components of the backend infrastructure (with Postgres/NestJS/Redis) that continue to support the Mushroom Discord bot as it's grown from having presence in 1 server to now where it services over 60k active Discord servers.
- Integrated support for real-time notifications and updates over websockets with a Redis-backed pub sub service.
- Designed and implemented a key algorithm that powers automatic quest generation for over 450k monthly active users.
- Interviewed and onboarded incoming engineers, developed a technical React assessment that's currently used in the interview process.

### Research Assistant @ Center for Peace and Security Studies - U.C. San Diego
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
- Worked under the Machine Learning for Social Sciences lab with a team of undergraduate programmers to assist with research into global security
- Developed an automated web-scraping tool for the LexusNexus platform in R to help build a database of text-documents for natural language processing.
- Developed a document hosting server using R/Postgres with a SOAP-ful API as part of a testing suite for a high-volume web scraping tool.


## Education
### B.S. + B.A. in Computer Science, Economics
UC San Diego

### Associate of Science - AS in Mathematics
Foothill College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/j-mcc3093
- Portfolio: https://james-mccullough.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29