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Jim Orr

Software Engineer · Full-Stack Web Development

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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. Recent focus on Python and Node.js development, LLM API integration, and AI-assisted workflows.

Technical Skills

Languages
JavaScript, Node.js, Python, PHP
Databases
MySQL, PostgreSQL
Frontend
HTML5, CSS3, responsive layouts, cross-browser debugging, jQuery, Bootstrap
APIs / Web
REST APIs, WebSockets, Postman
Testing / QA
Selenium, WebDriver, TestProject, test automation, Pega
Tools
Git, Agile, AI-assisted development, LLM API integration

Experience

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.

Independent Development · 2022–Present

Continued active development during a health-related career pause: built Python, Node.js, and JavaScript prototypes around automation and AI-assisted workflows; studied LLM API integration and retrieval-augmented application design; expanded working familiarity with modern tooling and scripting practices.