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James A. Ray 👨‍💻🐐

(He, Him, His) [husband, father, hacker]

🧠 Principal-level engineer building AI-native platforms, open knowledge systems, and modern cloud-backed products across music, science, and enterprise ecosystems

⛈️ Supporting the NASA Space Weather Science Operations Center infrastructure and cloud operations [Contracting via Navteca]

🌑 Previously working with NASA JSC Flight Operations Directorate on the Luna dev team, delivering scalable frontend systems and platform improvements [Contracting via Navteca]

🧭 Advising Voice Atlas across communications, product direction, and strategic marketing [Contracting via Navteca]

💼 Former NASA/JPL Enterprise Applications Software Engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA for over 8 years

🏁 Engineering at the Edge

  • TypeScript engineer operating at the intersection of product, UI, and systems architecture 🏎️
  • Designing and shipping large-scale, high-visibility platforms for public and enterprise audiences 🌐
  • Building with modern decoupled, headless, and API-first architecture patterns 💀
  • Driving platform quality through performance, accessibility, maintainability, and developer experience 🔒
  • Translating ambiguity into execution across application architecture, frontend systems, backend coordination, and infrastructure strategy ⚡
  • Comfortable across design systems, DevOps-adjacent workflows, product shaping, and emerging AI tooling 🤖
  • Known for modernizing legacy systems, scaling ambitious products, and bringing order to messy ecosystems 🛠️
  • Effective technical partner to founders, stakeholders, designers, and engineering teams 🤝
  • Fearlessly getting scars from the bleeding edge while keeping systems practical, elegant, and shippable 🩸

☁️ Experienced Shipping and Maintaining

  • Enterprise-ready content management systems and publishing ecosystems 🧠
  • Performance-driven and secure web experiences at organizational scale 🔒
  • Bespoke hosting tools, observability surfaces, and DevOps dashboards 🚨
  • Accessible design systems across multiple frameworks and product families 🦮
  • APIs and data interfaces for science, astronomy, and operational workflows 📡
  • Metadata-rich knowledge platforms, discovery systems, and contribution models 🎼
  • Multi-tenant products, component libraries, and extensible frontend foundations 🧱
  • Cloud infrastructure patterns supporting reliable internal and public-facing systems ☁️
  • Technical brand and product surfaces that pair engineering depth with strong visual execution ✨

🛠️ Skills & Technologies

TypeScript, React, Angular, Vue, Nuxt, Next.js, GraphQL, Django, Wagtail, AWS, AWS GovCloud, GCP, Astro, Svelte, Vite, TailwindCSS, HeadlessUI, Jest, Swift, Apollo, CI/CD, monorepos, design systems, platform architecture, API design, and AI-assisted workflows 🤖

🧪 Current Areas of Focus

  • AI-native application development and agent-driven product workflows
  • Open knowledge systems, structured data models, and metadata normalization
  • MCP-oriented interoperability and standards-minded platform design
  • Modern frontend architecture with strong UX, design, and component discipline
  • Cloud-backed systems that support scalable, resilient product delivery
  • Products that are both technically serious and highly usable

🧭 What Sets Me Apart

  • Deep frontend engineering strength paired with architecture-level thinking

  • A rare ability to move fluidly between design refinement, implementation, systems planning, and platform strategy

  • Experience shipping for NASA-scale organizations while also helping shape emerging products from the ground floor

  • Equal care for polish, performance, clarity, and long-term maintainability

  • Best in environments where product vision, technical ambiguity, and execution pressure all overlap

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  • 👨🏻‍🎤 Personal Site (raylus.com) 🎧

  • 🌠 GitHub Stargazing List ✨

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