James Lampkins

Full Stack Application Developer

San Antonio, TX | GitHub | LinkedIn

Profile

Full-stack developer with 7+ years of experience delivering enterprise applications in financial services. Proven ability to lead modernization initiatives, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ship production systems under tight deadlines. Known for technical versatility, clear communication, and consistently exceeding performance expectations across concurrent workstreams.

Experience

Application Developer 2018 – Present

SWBC — Financial Institution Group

Remote | San Antonio, TX

Progressed from junior developer to senior full-stack contributor owning multiple systems and leading cross-team initiatives.

Led modernization of legacy .NET systems to .NET 8, including message bus upgrades and containerization with Docker and AWS ECS

Architected and delivered a claims processing portal, remittance system, and borrower-facing web application end-to-end

Managed migration of 10+ applications across server and database environments through all deployment stages

Designed secure document routing integrations with third-party ML/AI vendors, delivering ahead of schedule

Built a centralized API gateway for service bus connectivity, reducing onboarding friction for downstream teams

Led daily rapid-response standups coordinating issue resolution across multiple development teams

Coordinated cross-company deployments with external partners including authentication system rewrites

Migrated call recording infrastructure to cloud storage (S3), improving retrieval performance

Mentored onshore and offshore developers through sprint planning, code review, and production deployment processes

Won company Hackathon award for "Most Likely to Go to Production" — recognized for innovation and feasibility

Technical Skills

Languages C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL Frameworks .NET 8, .NET Core, Angular, ASP.NET Cloud & Infra AWS (ECS, S3, IAM, CDK), Docker, CI/CD Pipelines Messaging nServiceBus, Service Bus Architecture, Event-Driven Design Data SQL Server, Documentum, EDI Processing Tools Azure DevOps, Git, Splunk, Amazon Q, GitHub Copilot Practices Agile/Scrum, Sprint Leadership, Production Support, Monitoring & Alerting

Personal Projects

Gateway Engine — Custom tile-based RPG engine with tactical battle system, zero runtime dependencies (Vanilla JS, Canvas 2D, Tiled, AWS CDK, CloudFront)

Loreweaver — AI-powered choose-your-own-adventure with dynamic story generation (C#/.NET 8, Step Functions, SQS, Bedrock, DynamoDB)

Hub — Pixel-art portfolio with real-time multiplayer, NPC systems, and admin PWA with push notifications (Canvas 2D, WebSocket API, Lambda, Capacitor)

Pokemon Battle Game — Turn-based card battle with animated sprites, sound effects, and dynamic card data (JavaScript, Bootstrap, Pokemon TCG API)

Education

Codeup 2019

Certificate of Completion, Computer Software Engineering — Java Full Stack Development

Fully-immersive, project-based 18-week career accelerator providing 600+ hours of expert instruction in full stack development. Approved by the Texas Workforce Commission and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

The University of Texas at San Antonio 2006 – 2012

Bachelor of Arts, Criminal Justice

Recognition

"Rarely does an employee impress a manager on a difficult application or initiative. It's rarer still when an employee impresses multiple managers across multiple applications." — Manager evaluation, 2022