Jim Shields Email Address

Software Engineer

YipitData is a financial services company that provides practical web data intelligence to institutional investors.

I am an experienced engineering leader with a focus on developing great engineers and building impactful tools and products. I have experience in cloud infrastructure, product engineering, data engineering, management, data analytics, and working with internal & external users. Currently, I am a Senior Engineer at YipitData, where I lead the infrastructure team. I've also worked on infra cost optimization, library development and API design, full-stack internal tool development, and managing and helping lead technical teams. Prior to YipitData, I was lucky to attend the Recurse Center — a "retreat for programmers" — in NYC. At RC, I worked on a number of projects in Python, JavaScript, and related frameworks. Two of the more fun projects were building my own web framework in Python (https://github.com/jimjshields/tiny), building a web app (http://thanktheacademy.herokuapp.com/) to analyze every Academy Awards speech ever transcribed, and randomly generate speeches from the corpus of speeches. Before that, I spent over three years as a client-facing and technical analyst at Novus Partners. In that time, I worked directly with hedge fund and institutional clients, managed the workflow of team members, developed an internal training program, and with developers and product managers debugged and improved the product. Over time, my focus shifted toward programming and product development - I was most interested in working to improve our product, and loved spending time developing and maintaining internal tools.