Jim Orr

Software Engineer · Full-Stack & AI-First Development

ivjames@gmail.com 909-851-2915 Remote / CA Projects: lab980.com

Full-stack web developer with experience shipping and maintaining production applications across e-commerce, logistics, and internal tooling. Comfortable across the stack — backend systems and APIs, frontend implementation, database work, and QA. Since 2022, founder and sole developer of lab980, an independent software lab: ten-plus web applications designed, built, and operated solo — AI-first, from DNS to deploy.

Technical Skills

Languages: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Node.js, PHP
Frontend: React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, HTML5, CSS3, responsive layouts
Backend: Django, Flask, Express, Prisma, REST APIs, WebSockets, Stripe integration
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite
AI: AI-first development (Claude Code), Anthropic & OpenAI APIs, LLM application design
Testing / QA: Playwright, pytest, Vitest, Selenium / WebDriver, Pega
Ops: nginx, pm2, DigitalOcean, GitHub Actions, TLS/certbot, Git

Experience

Founder / Sole Developer · lab980 — independent software lab · Remote2022 – Present

Built and operate lab980.com, a self-hosted platform running 10+ production web applications end-to-end: scripted provisioning (DNS → nginx → TLS → pm2), per-site operate CLIs, and repeatable deploy pipelines.
Shipped live products including an autonomous AI publication that writes, illustrates, and publishes its own articles on a schedule (GitHub Actions + Claude API); a quiz platform with dynamically generated share cards (Next.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL); and an AI art generator that safely executes LLM-written code inside a three-layer sandbox.
Rebuilt two Southern California theatre websites for real clients, starting from an axe-core accessibility audit that documented 26 WCAG violations on the incumbent site.
Currently building a multi-tenant box-office SaaS (Django, PostgreSQL, Stripe, in-browser multi-ticket QR scanning) and a conflict-proof gig-scheduling platform (Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma).
AI-first workflow throughout: Claude Code daily, with test coverage in Playwright, pytest, and Vitest.

QA Engineer / SDET · Hoverstate 2.0 · Woodland Hills, CASep 2020 – Apr 2022

Tested multiple client web platforms; worked with development teams on issue identification and release stabilization.
Built a comprehensive automated test suite for a multi-step business application — covering diverse report types, form logic, file uploads, and JavaScript-based signature fields.
Designed the automation system to serve both QA and structured data-entry workflows.
Worked on Pega in both developer and QA capacities; evaluated and prototyped tooling to improve testing efficiency.

Web Developer · ACPro · Fontana, CAApr 2019 – Mar 2020

Maintained legacy e-commerce and proprietary business platforms.
Contributed to a system re-architecture that introduced API integrations and modernized core technology dependencies.

Web Developer · Pacific Logistics Corp · Pico Rivera, CAJan 2014 – Apr 2019

Built and maintained internal web applications and warehouse management systems supporting logistics operations.
Modernized legacy intranet infrastructure, replacing aging systems to improve reliability and day-to-day productivity.

Earlier: Web Developer at 4over Inc. (2011–2013) and Warp2Biz (2010–2011); Lead Web Developer at The Dohring Company / MarketSurveys.com (2006–2010); Owner/Freelance Developer at OrrWeb.net (2002–2006); and Senior Programmer at Visual Perspectives Internet (2000–2002). Work spanned legacy PHP web stores and internal frameworks, internal project-management and team-communication tools, survey-production and sales platforms, web development for small and midsize businesses, and backend development for commercial e-commerce platforms.