James Kennedy
I build systems that solve business problems: data pipelines, automations, internal tools, and web applications. I currently use them to operate and grow a portfolio of online businesses.
Selected work
Food price tracker
Pulls historical food price data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and turns it into interactive price charts for PriceofMeat.com.
ThoughtThrill
Math infotainment YouTube channel and companion site.
About
I spend a lot of my time building systems that make businesses easier to operate: scheduled publishing workflows, API integrations, data pipelines, automation scripts, and internal tools.
Most of what I know about building systems came from needing something to exist and then building it. My strength is figuring out what actually needs to be built, getting a working version into production, and keeping it useful and reliable.
Before running my own projects, I worked in commercial real estate banking, where I analyzed credit and managed loans from application through closing. I later spent a year and a half managing an industrial products company.
I studied Business Administration with an emphasis in Information Systems at Cal Poly Pomona. That combination of business and technology has shaped how I approach problems: understand the business need first, then build the simplest system that solves it.
Other
Live market data
Real-time quotes for gold, silver, SPY, and QQQ, served by a custom WordPress REST endpoint with server-side caching.
Investment return calculator
Models contributions, compound returns, and investment growth over time with interactive charts.
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