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Jim Newpower

> I architect and build software — from geospatial and scientific tools to enterprise web systems.

Software engineer and technical lead. I turn hard spatial and scientific problems into fast, reliable software — the gridding and 3D-surface algorithms, the REST APIs, and the apps that put that data in people's hands. I've led teams, modernized legacy codebases, and shipped to clients worldwide.

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Senior architect at Strikewire LLC, augmenting engineering teams at Sandia National Laboratories.
AI-assisted development is core to my daily workflow — I build and maintain custom agents, skills, and prompt workflows, and lean on them to design, build, and ship software faster.

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Senior Architect · Strikewire LLC

2023 — Present

Senior architect on a staff-augmentation engagement at Sandia National Laboratories.

Architecting and developing enterprise Java web applications (Spring, JSF, Oracle).

Software Engineer · Independent / Consultant

2020 — 2023

Geospatial APIs, mobile, and full-stack apps across a range of clients.

Android activity tracker rendering high-resolution GPS tracks with velocity and slope overlays (Kotlin, Spring, Google Maps SDK).
Geospatial REST APIs — SRTM elevation lookup by coordinate and multi-format GPS conversion (Quarkus, Flask, AWS).
Full-stack fantasy-football draft app with an Android frontend (Spring, JavaScript/Bootstrap).
Jury-selection web application with an Angular frontend on a Quarkus/Java backend.
Surface-modeling web app turning xyz point clouds into relief-shaded, contoured grids (Quarkus).

Software Engineer & Team Lead · Platte River Associates

1993 — 2020

Built and led BasinMod, a geoscience suite for petroleum exploration — modeling, simulation, and 3D visualization.

Led 5 engineers across 8 applications and drove the Agile transition that cut releases from annual to monthly.
Parallelized algorithms, simulations, and visualizations for 10x throughput on datasets over 1GB.
Surface modeling over millions of vertices (gridding, contouring, TINs), plus 2D/3D scientific visualization and Monte Carlo risk simulation.
Modernized the codebase — 80% of legacy C rewritten in Java (+50% productivity) — backed by 10,000+ automated tests.

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Languages

Java, Kotlin, Python, TypeScript, Go, C, SQL

Backend & APIs

Spring Boot, Quarkus, Hibernate/JPA, .NET, Flask, REST, PostgreSQL, Oracle

Frontend

JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Angular, JSF, Bootstrap, Astro, Chart.js

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudFront, Route 53, Amplify), Docker, Firebase, Git, CI/CD

Domains

Geospatial / GIS, scientific computing, 2D/3D visualization, simulation (Shapefile, KML, GPX, GeoJSON, GRID, HDF5)

Practices

Agile / Kanban, TDD, SOLID, DRY, code review, mentoring

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B.S. Computer Science Engineering · University of Colorado