# James Ranger

> Senior Software Engineer at Blackbaud

Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesranger

Physicist-turned-programmer based in Portland, OR

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Blackbaud
Jan 2018 – Present | Charleston County, SC
Full-stack .NET and Angular 2+ developer working on grant application solutions for foundations.

### Full-Stack Web Developer @ CrowdComfort
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston
Principal web engineer for a building management SaaS company. Planned, designed, and developed responsive web applications. Built applications in Angular (2+) using Node, Express, Webpack, Bootstrap, and others. Contributed to a central REST API written in Python with Flask. Maintained existing web applications written using React. Trained and oversaw a web development intern. Worked closely with product managers, devops, designers, and account managers to ensure products  met customer requirements.  Released tested and approved code to production.

### Technical Writing Scientist @ Thorlabs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Technical marketing for a lineup of over 20,000 scientific research products focused on photonics. Updated web pages, released new projects, and attended frequent webpage review and product design meetings with engineers from around the world. Wrote product information and collaborated with graphic artists to produce images of setups, technical drawings, and information graphics.

### NSF Physics & Astronomy REU Intern @ Vanderbilt University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Nashville, TN
Analyzed data from Gammasphere at Argonne National Laboratory, read gamma-ray counts, determined decay-schemes for exotic isotopes produced by spontaneous fission of californium-252, used software (including Linux and RADWARE) to limit and display data, determined neutron yields for various isotopes, verified level schemes from other laboratories, worked under J.H. Hamilton, Ph.D. and A.V. Ramayya, Ph.D. One paper has been published in Physical Review C (2014), and another is in preparation for submission.

### Research Assistant @ Furman University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Worked in a biophotonics lab under Dake Wang, Ph.D., used a laser speckle technique to image blood flow in amphibians, imaged blood cells using fluorescent techniques, ran Raman spectroscopy samples, used light modulators to enhance laser speckle techniques


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Physics
Furman University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Travel Study in Spanish Language and Literature
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jranger42

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Last updated: 2026-03-22