james t. platt — jt

From Wall Street finance and Silicon Valley startups to classrooms in East Oakland, sneakers in Oregon, and state IT in Sacramento.

I build systems that handle the work people shouldn't have to.

JT Platt

selected work

The agent's daily report: scanned and surfaced counts, scored postings, and a per-posting scoring breakdown. Employer and title fields blurred.
A daily run. Employer and title fields blurred; the scoring breakdown is real.

jobs.jtplatt.com

A personal distributed system that runs my job search. A daily launchd cron on my Mac crawls four public-sector job boards, scores each posting against a structured inventory of my experience in two tiers (a cheap deterministic filter, then an LLM pass on the survivors), and publishes a static report the server serves behind auth. Rate-limited, robots-aware, and built so an empty scrape never overwrites the last good run.

Solo build · Python, Flask, SQLite, BeautifulSoup, Claude API · 2026

The Sneaker Savant & Shoemetrics

Built a sneaker authentication brand from nothing, including Shoemetrics, a proprietary methodology for grading sneaker condition. Grew a community of 16,000+ reaching 1.5M accounts a month, and advised StockX.

Founder · brand, product, methodology · 2013–present

Budweiser "Puppy Love" microsite

The microsite for Budweiser's "Puppy Love" campaign at Super Bowl XLVIII, which reached more than 40 million people. Built at Thismoment, a brand-experience platform whose curated, scrollable content streams predated the timeline interface Facebook later made the norm.

Front-end engineer · HTML, CSS, JavaScript on a proprietary CMS · Super Bowl XLVIII, 2014

CodeKings → RewardStyle

Early product development at an ad-tech startup. Managed ad-server systems for hundreds of clients and ran delivery as the team scaled from 4 to 20+ people, through its acquisition by RewardStyle.

Project manager & front-end developer · ad-server systems · 2015–2016

Computer Science & CTE

Taught Geometry and Computer Science in East Oakland, built a Geometry curriculum to California standards from scratch, and earned a California Career Technical Education credential.

Teacher · curriculum design, classroom delivery · 2017–2020

experience

The full record

technology & it

  • Information Technology Specialist I / State of California (FI$CAL) 2023–now
  • Front-End Developer / Thismoment → CodeKings → RewardStyle 2013–2016
  • IT & Accounting Consultant / Tahoe Restaurant Collection 2011–2013

finance & analysis

  • Quality Assurance Analyst / Intuit 2010–2011
  • Business Analyst, Middle Office / GFI Group 2008–2010
  • Senior Accountant & Financial Analyst / GFI Group 2006–2008
  • Commodities AR Analyst / Bear Stearns 2006
  • Junior Accountant / GFI Group 2004–2006
  • Foreign Bureau Accountant / Associated Press 2003–2004

teaching & cte

  • Mathematics & Computer Science Teacher / ARISE High School 2018–2020
  • Teacher & Web Development Instructor / Oakland Charter Academy (Amethod) 2017–2018

education & credentials

Credentials

  • BA, Business Management Economics · UC Santa Cruz
  • CA Career Technical Education Credential · Business & Information Systems
  • Web Developer Certificate · Coding Dojo

resume

The full history

A current resume is in the works. Until it lands, the complete history lives on LinkedIn, or just reach out by email.