James Dabbs
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Dabbs is a Software Architect at Procore Technologies in Santa Barbara who blends hands-on engineering with a Master’s in Mathematics and a background in teaching. He has risen through senior, staff, and principal roles at Procore, focusing on building tooling and architectural patterns that let teams scale and adapt to changing business needs. A former lead Ruby instructor and co-founder, he prioritizes craftsmanship and mentorship, believing a 10x developer is created by elevating others. His GitHub moniker "Code deleter" reflects a pragmatic obsession with simplifying systems—finding elegant, easy-to-use solutions and removing unnecessary complexity. That combination of pedagogy, math-driven rigor, and practical architecture helps him turn hard problems into durable, team-amplifying software.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (41)
presenter9
rspec9
mocking9
double9
stubbing9
mongoid8
tdd8
ruby8
migration8
testing8
serializer8
json7
rails7
ruby-on-rails7
refactoring5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jamesdabbs-procore/rspec-mocks
May 2019 - Dec 2019
RSpec's 'test double' framework, with support for stubbing and mocking
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
stubbingtestingdoublerubyrspec
procore/sidekiq-datadog
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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