Hey, I'm Jim Buck

I'm a software architect at RDA. I help enterprise teams modernize their platforms and adopt AI-assisted development practices that raise software quality and improve the developer experience, not just output. This is where I share the work, the tools I build, and what I've learned along the way.

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Jan 2026@ Major U.S. Payments Infrastructure Provider

Composable Platform Architecture & Build

Carried the replacement of a six-property enterprise web platform from architecture approval into active build, designing a composable, vendor-managed architecture that a four-person team can own without a dedicated infrastructure group.

Architecture

AWS

CI/CD

Oct 2025@ Alex Lee

Supply Chain Pricing Modernization

Architected and led the September 2026 production cutover of mainframe pricing capabilities, including Reserves, Lock-Ins, and Upcharges, onto a modern API-driven supply chain platform spanning four integrated systems.

API

Architecture

Project Management

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14+

Years of Experience

32

Projects Delivered

23

Organizations Served

From the Blog

12/31/2020

2020 Recap

2020 was far crazier than I would have expected. I want to share exactly why I released less content and share my goals for 2021.

Getting Started with NDepend

Complexity is one of the most common problems among developers. Even with proper planning things can still get out of hand. I start to dig into NDepend to learn more about the issues it solves and how it can benefit my projects.

Optional Chaining and Nullish Coalescing in Node.js

Optional chaining and nullish coalescing are now available in Node.js 14, making it easier to write safe, concise code without defensive programming.