Alen T James

Software Engineer · Mobile + Cloud
Hillsborough, NJ · NYC Metro Area alentomjames@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/alentomjames ↗
Experience
PSEG (Public Service Electric & Gas) — Newark, NJ
Jun 2023 — Present
Mobile + Web Software Developer (Technology Professional)
  • Co-own the frontend (React Native) and backend (AWS) of the PSEG Mobile App — iOS & Android — across customer-facing features, performance, and operational reliability.
  • Design and maintain RESTful APIs with AWS API Gateway & Lambda, integrated into the mobile frontend.
  • Ship production releases through Jenkins (Android) and TestFlight / Transporter (iOS).
  • Build real-time AWS CloudWatch dashboards monitoring app health and performance.
  • Create production animations & micro-interactions (including the current loading animation) in Figma, LottieFiles, and SVG.
  • Lead developer of the PSEG myTown site (Azure), delivering town- and municipality-level outage information; independently built the frontend (JS/HTML/CSS) on an Azure backend (Function Apps, Storage Accounts, static hosting).
  • Partnered with the MuleSoft team on SFTP-based data pipelines into Azure — permissions, integration, and end-to-end data flow.
  • Engineered a CI/CD pipeline in Node.js automating creation and deployment of API Gateway resources via the AWS SDK.
  • Automated identification, categorization, and tagging of AWS Lambda functions via CloudWatch Logs and the AWS SDK; built CloudWatch alarms for failures/timeouts with EventBridge notifications.
Presentation Systems Inc. — Wyckoff, NJ
Jan 2023 — Jun 2023
Technical Support / Field Service Technician
  • Provided on-site repair and maintenance for technical equipment — printers, computers, and other technology.
  • Performed hardware/software troubleshooting, networking support, and systems maintenance and repair.
Projects
myTown — County & Municipality Outage Report
2025 — 2026
Lead Frontend & Backend Developer
  • Led mytown.pseg.com, surfacing county- and municipality-level outage metrics during storm and non-storm conditions.
  • Architected a serverless Azure backend (QA + Production) — Function Apps (HTTP / queue-triggered), Storage Accounts, and Blob storage — to process large-scale outage and customer data.
  • Built a memory-efficient streaming pipeline over a ~40M-record dataset, joined with near-real-time outage events to produce county & municipal summaries.
Onward & Up — Published iOS Game
2026 · Personal
Solo Developer — design, art, code, release
  • Designed, illustrated, and shipped a complete iOS puzzle game to the App Store — game design, art direction, UI/UX, and release, end to end.
  • Hand-illustrated all in-game art, screens, and animations as a one-person studio, designed and laid out entirely in Figma.
  • Built on Swift and SpriteKit, using AI-assisted workflows (Claude Code) to accelerate implementation; managed the full App Store submission and release process.
ReadMate — Published Chrome Extension
2024 · NJIT
Project Manager & Lead Developer
  • Built and launched an accessibility extension (text-to-speech, document reading) for users with learning disabilities.
  • Led a team of 3 with Scrum — weekly sprints, Trello documentation, and agile metrics.
  • Published and maintained the extension on the Chrome Web Store. Tech: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Google TTS API, jQuery, PDF.js, DOMPurify.
Education
New Jersey Institute of Technology
BS, Information Technology
(Network Security Specialization)
Graduated December 2024
Certifications
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Aug 2024 — Aug 2027
ITIL® v4 Foundation
May 2025 — May 2028
Skills
Languages / Libraries
JavaScript · React Native · React · Node.js · HTML · CSS · PHP · Bootstrap
Software
Android Studio · Xcode · Jenkins · GitHub · Figma · AWS Suite (SDK, Lambda, CloudWatch, DynamoDB) · Azure Suite (Storage, Function Apps, App Insights) · Veracode · WordPress
Other
Bilingual (English & Malayalam) · CI/CD · Agile & Scrum · Responsive Web Design · RESTful APIs · Git · AWS CLI · SFTP