James White

About James White

James is an AVP of Software Engineering at Moody\'s, a leading provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis. He has over 15 years of enterprise software development experience, spanning multiple roles, projects, locations, and technologies. He is also an AWS Certified Solution Architect, demonstrating his proficiency in designing and implementing cloud-native solutions on the AWS platform.In his current role, James leverages his AWS and structured finance expertise to build scalable, reliable, and secure microservices applications that perform millions of complex matrix calculations for financial modeling, market analysis, and research. These applications enable Moody\'s analysts to deliver faster, better, and more accurate ratings, models, and insights to their clients. James also contributes to the cloud strategy, migration, and security of Moody\'s applications, using a range of AWS services and a highly configurable CI/CD Jenkins pipeline. Additionally, James provides thought leadership, solution architecture, training, and process improvement to his peers and clients, while managing multiple, complex development projects across different regions and teams. James is passionate about innovation, problem-solving, and learning new technologies. He is always eager to travel where his skillset is needed and to collaborate with other professionals in his field.Key Skills- Enterprise Solution Architecture, Development & Management- Client Relationship Management- Cloud Strategy, Cloud-Native Architecture & cloud migrations- Requirements gathering and their impacts - Certified AWS Solutions Architect -> EC2, Lambdas, Fargate, API GW, Route53, ALB/NLB, VPC, AZs, Subnets, Security, IAM, Lambdas, S3, RDS, ECS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation- Thought leadership and innovation- Architectural Design patterns (Monolith, 3-layer, Micro-services etc)- Languages-> C#.NET, Python, ASP.NET, JavaScript, NodeJs, GraphQL- Cloud & cyber security (purple, yellow, red & blue)- Agile, Scrum & Kanban Methodology- Databases-> SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, DocumentDB- RESTful API design and SOAP protocol- Containerization/Orchestration (ECS, Docker)- Process Analysis & Improvement - Front end development-> HTML, CSS, BootStrap, jQuery, React, Apache- Risk management - Story development- QA Process- Training development- Pre-sales and responding to RFPs- oAuth and JWT tokensReach out if you\'d like to discuss the latest technology trends. I follow YCombinator\'s Hacker news: http://news.ycombinator.com

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Selective Insurance

   Sep 2024 — Present

   Helping to modernize our in house platform and processes

Education

• University of South Carolina

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science