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Skills

  • Clojure
  • Python
  • Apache TinkerPop
  • Cassandra
  • Google App Engine
  • Mvp
  • Neo4j
  • Startup Development
  • Apache HBase
  • Big Data
  • Cloud Applications
  • Conversion Optimization
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Processing
  • Data Science

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Services

  • Web Development & Consulting

    $150/hr Starting at $3K Ongoing

    Dedicated Resource

    Generalist with 20 years experience and deep backend expertise. Design and develop cloud-based e-commerce systems, marketplace apps, and knowledge systems. Consult businesses on Internet strategy and...

    Apache TinkerPopBig DataCassandraClojureConversion Optimization

  • Build Startup MVP Minimum Viable Product

    $5/hr Starting at $5K Ongoing

    Dedicated Resource

    I will build a prototype of your idea in one month. I will build the entire application, including the front-end and the back-end API server and database service. You will get a fully functional Web app,...

    ClojureCloud ApplicationsData ProcessingDatabase DesignDatabase Systems

  • Graph Database Consulting

    $150/hr Starting at $5K Ongoing

    Dedicated Resource

    I will work with you and your team to design and develop your graph database application. I am on the Apache TinkerPop committer and a founding member of Apache TinkerPop Project Management Committee...

    Apache HBaseApache TinkerPopCassandraClojureGroovy

About

Helping build the Internet since 1994 -- I'm espeed on GitHub, Hacker News, StackOverflow, Twitter...

Design and develop custom cloud-based e-commerce systems, marketplace apps, and knowledge systems. Consult businesses on Internet strategy and how to set up online systems for sales and operations management.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesthornton

TinkerPop Graph Developers Group
Managing the writing of TinkerPop book on graph database programming with four other TinkerPop members (http://www.tinkerpopbook.com).

Lead developer of Bulbs, a Python graph-database framework that supports Rexster, Neo4j Server, and Titan Server (http://bulbflow.com).

Neo4j Graph Database Contributor
Developed Gremlin-JavaScript query processing plugin for Neo4j Server.

Developing Whybase, a social reasoning engine that enables you to connect ideas and analyze them with others to discover insights into the reasons behind why things are true and how things are interconnected (http://whybase.com).

BACKGROUND

Began developing Internet applications during the dawn of the commercial Internet in 1994. Programmed first commercial site in Perl, using CGI scripts on a Silicon Graphics O2 running IRIX and Netscape Enterprise Server.

Founded Electric Speed in 1999, an Internet consulting company named after the term coined by Marshall McLuhan in his seminal work, "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" (1964).

Co-founded Colorado Federal Savings Bank's national online lending division (Cofedbank). Development Director from 2003 to 2008. Developed website and national Internet-marketing strategy for online division and bank's 30-plus branches. Designed mortgage-rate pricing engine that calculated real-time best-execution for 100s of investors. Developed lead-management system, managed online advertising, and set up analytics system, which enabled us to optimize conversion ratios for each level of the marketing and sales funnel. The online division enabled bank to originate loans in all 50 states. Provident Funding acquired Colorado Federal in 2008.

Work Terms

Invoiced through Electric Speed Consulting, LLC.