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James Balmert

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Engineering Manager at The Helper Bees
📍 Galena, Ohio, United States

James is an engineering manager with over 20 years of experience building efficient and productive teams. He specializes in teaching Test Driven Development and Object-Oriented Design, and has a proven track record of improving team processes and code quality. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University.

Publicly available information focuses on his extensive professional experience, including speaking at tech events like CodeMash. Details regarding his personal hobbies or non-work activities are not widely available, though he has expressed an interest in game development as a hobby to improve professional skills.

He once wrote a tool that automated adding new pharmacies to a platform, reducing the time required from several days down to approximately 20 minutes.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Engineering Manager
Job Level
Middle
Location
Galena, Ohio, United States
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Test Driven Development
He is passionate about TDD, having led coding sessions and given talks on the topic to improve code quality and delivery times.
Team Empowerment
His focus is on building collaborative, empathetic, and productive teams that take ownership of improving their own processes and skills.
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Career

Work history

4-2025
Engineering Manager
The Helper Bees
11-2021 - 4-2025
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Hagerty
9-2019 - 11-2021
VP
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
1-2019 - 9-2019
Consultant
Judge Consulting Group
3-2016 - 12-2018
Contract Software Engineer
Manifest Solutions
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Education
1994 - 2001
B.S
The Ohio State University
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