Hello, I'm Jim Yagmin

This is my portfolio

Portfolio

BookRags.com

Co-Founder
The largest collection of literature study guides, lesson plans and educational resources for students and teachers.

TestCafe.com (closed)

Co-Founder (sub-property of BookRags)
In-depth and fun quizzes.

KaChange.com (closed)

Co-Founder
A free service for consumers to safely switch their utility supplier in under 2 minutes online.

Nuggety.com

Creator
Advanced search on any image website from a unified search box.

WheresSharon.com

Owner (via acquisition)
One of the largest family travel blogs with nearly 500 trip reports.

SubSrv.com

Creator
Browse posts from different subreddits on a single page.

TagUrls.com (closed)

Creator
Combines del.icio.us bookmarks and Quantcast traffic ranking to show the most popular sites for any topic.

Seaurch.com (closed)

Creator
Federated search with over 100 search engines grouped by topic.

Famousr.com (closed)

Creator
Which celebrity is more famous?

My Resume

Experience

2017 - current

Owner

Developed and managed several small web properties

James Yagmin LLC
2014 - current

Founder

Detected, parsed and analyzed search forms from any website using a custom web scraper

Nuggety.com
2010 - 2014

Technical Co-Founder

Worked directly with utility companies to automate enrollments, ran A/B tests on direct mail ads

KaChange, Inc.
2000 - 2010

Technical Co-Founder

While serving as the sole technical employee, built and scaled the website to a Top 1000 traffic ranking according to Quantcast

BookRags, Inc.
2002 - 2002

Java Software Engineer

Developed an e-commerce platform for supermarkets

Unipower
1999 - 2000

Software Consultant

Built custom ERP reports for Fortune 500 clients using Oracle Express

AppNet

Technologies

JavaScript

JQuery

PHP

Python

MySQL

React

Vue.js

Node.js

Express.js

Quasar Framework

FeathersJS

Solr

Perl

Java

BASH

Jim in Chendu, China

About Me

I'm a startup veteran and full stack developer in San Francisco

I love developing—not only bringing new web products to life, but the entire process of planning and implementing ideas, exploring markets, strategizing about the macro impact while resolving all the micro-decisions that elevate products from good to great. Currently I am working with Vue.js and loving the SPA architecture.

When I step away from my computer I enjoy hiking around the Bay Area, traveling the world (boo, COVID!), charcoal drawing, grilling and building elaborate LEGO sets.

Email me via Gmail at jyagmin