James Easter

Build and maintain Veres architecture and open-source packages for W3C credentials.

• California DMV Verifier Credential verifier running in production for the California DMV.
  • Shipped its verifier coordinator and scanner for parking placards, AAMVA licenses, and Instant Identity.
• Veres Admin Interface Multi-tenant SaaS console for the Veres verifiable credential platform.
  • Took it from first commit to production: organizations plus issuer, status, verifier, and workflow instances, each tenant isolated by its own encrypted data vault and zcaps.
  • Wrote veres-core-client, a builder-pattern library holding the console's logic, plus its Terraform.
• DHS First Responder Verifiable Credential programs piloted with CalOES, North Dakota, and Longview Solutions.
  • Delivered the issuer and verifier coordinators, plus the APIs customers use to integrate their own, from one codebase deployed into each program's environment.
• Veres Wallet Browser-based wallet for holding and presenting W3C Verifiable Credentials.
  • Shipped camera QR capture in the browser, plus credential detail views that render each credential from its own renderMethod SVG template.
  • Led a UI redesign of the wallet dashboard, login, and registration.
• @bedrock NPM Packages Open-source packages behind the Veres platform.
  • Contribute across 17 of the platform's open-source packages, including the barcode scanner that replaced a paid dependency with the browser's Barcode Detection API.
• VC Playground Public platform for issuing and verifying example verifiable credentials.
  • Maintained the example credentials, queries, and JSON-LD contexts, and added selective disclosure and multi-protocol QR issuance over VC API and OID4VCI.

Consultancy delivering full stack web and mobile products for government and commercial clients.

• OPTIC Drone flight operations platform built with GeoAcuity for the US Army Corps of Engineers.
  • Led the migration of 13 React contexts onto Redux Toolkit slices, replacing mutable class instances with predictable state and ending the unexplained re-renders they caused.
  • Mentor two developers, review the team's pull requests, and shape architecture and planning decisions alongside the program lead.
  • Drove the codebase to zero any casts and zero type suppressions, then enforced typecheck in CI so the guarantee holds instead of eroding.
  • Designed the error-handling contract now followed by the data, Redux, and component layers, documented it in-repo, and rolled it out across the codebase in five phases.
  • Rebuilt the missions dashboard onto server-side paging, compiling the grid's search, sort, and filters into SQL, and shrinking Redux state from 4.2 MB per org to 63 KB per page.
• @leverstack/arcq npm-published CLI tool for developers and agents to query ArcGIS feature services.
  • Ships a skill that hands coding agents the live data, so they check plans and results against the server and surface drift between the front end and the services.
  • Lists every service by its human-readable name and replays any query the application makes, so data problems are reproducible from a terminal without ArcGIS Pro.
• Winterfest iOS and Android conference app for The Winterfest Group: live polling, schedules, and raffles.
  • Sole developer through six major versions, shipped on the App Store and Google Play to 7,401 attendees who claimed 18,858 raffle entries across events in two states.
  • Ship one codebase into three environments, local Firebase emulators through staging to production, selected by native build target, so no event weekend rides on an untested build.
  • Keep the app current year over year: React Native 0.76 through 0.86, a JavaScript-to-TypeScript migration, and Firebase emulator integration tests running in CI.
• AGP Maps Geospatial product ordering and map authoring application, also built with GeoAcuity for USACE.
  • Helped plan and stood up the application, then designed and implemented its global state.
• Badge Birdie Workplace badge-in and occupancy analytics SaaS.
  • Shipped CSV ingestion with column mapping, dashboard charts and filters, and Stripe subscriptions.
• Secure Care Connect Verifiable credential health care application for Dogwood Logic.
  • Developed the front end from UI mockups through implementation, on Vue, bedrock, and MongoDB.

Owned front-end architecture, patterns, and planning on a four-developer team, and mentored its junior developer.

• NavPortal Channel-condition platform for USACE, showing survey change over time to plan dredging.
  • Compiled UI filter controls into Elasticsearch queries on the fly and applied the raw query directly to the ArcGIS layer, so the map itself narrowed as analysts filtered.
  • Revitalized its sprawling Material-UI component library: pruned, documented, and reworked for reuse.

Built React applications on ArcGIS and Elasticsearch, demoing each three-week sprint directly to USACE.

• Workflow Survey production tracker for USACE's JALBTCX team, following lidar blocks through processing.
  • Moved blocks across a drag-and-drop board through cleaning, QC scoring, and map review, so a block's stage was the board's own state.