Jamie Houston
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Architect and Developer
St. Louis, MO, United States
Toptal member since December 26, 2025
Jamie is a highly experienced software architect with decades of experience in full-stack and mobile development, guiding complex enterprise systems from initial concept to full-scale production (front-end to database). He specializes in architecting robust, scalable solutions across the entire technology stack. Jamie translates emerging technologies, particularly in AI tooling and agent development, into practical applications that streamline processes and accelerate project timelines.
Portfolio
Experience
- .NET - 15 years
- C# - 15 years
- Android - 15 years
- C#.NET - 10 years
- Kotlin - 10 years
- ASP.NET - 8 years
- AI Tools - 5 years
- Claude - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, Claude, Cursor AI
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on involved architecting and leading a team to create SmartStubs, a mobile and web ticketing solution for tour bus companies.
Work Experience
Senior AI Developer
World Wide Technology
- Implemented AI tooling and workflows to improve operational efficiency and manage day-to-day tasks.
- Built and deployed Vue apps for internal use across the company.
- Connected AI agents into apps to recommend business leads by analyzing data across Salesforce and other data sources.
Lead Member of Technical Staff
Salesforce
- Engineered an offline-capable mobile SDK for Lightning Web Components (LWC), enabling native integration and JavaScript interoperability.
- Integrated Android, iOS, and Windows applications within the Salesforce ecosystem, supporting cross-platform functionality.
- Implemented AI-driven automation for rules enforcement and documentation generation, accelerating development workflows.
- Developed a headless V8 JavaScript SDK wrapper around J2V8, enabling mobile execution of JavaScript in a headless engine. Documented the methodology in a published technical article.
- Enabled developers to leverage AI tooling by creating a collection of subagents in Claude code, automating the repository setup with rules and reference documentation for Cursor, Claude code, and future LLM IDEs.
- Reduced team context switching and support response times by implementing a rotating "Trust Hero" role to triage issues, delegate work, and lead daily status meetings during sprints.
Senior Mobile Developer
Projekt202
- Optimized a C# and Xamarin mobile application to process a 20 MB per second data stream from hardware in real time, enabling instant statistical analysis and visualization.
- Implemented CPU and GPU optimization techniques to achieve high performance on constrained mobile devices, improving responsiveness and stability.
- Delivered native Android and iOS apps under budget and on schedule by designing a cross-platform Xamarin solution with byte array buffers to handle high-speed data streams from proprietary hardware.
Development Lead
Daptiv., Inc
- Led a six-developer team in a Kanban environment to deliver .NET applications with REST APIs and AngularJS clients, ensuring timely and high-quality releases.
- Reduced bug reports by 25% and improved developer productivity by revising workflows and tooling across requirements gathering, development, and QA processes, resulting in faster and more reliable project delivery.
- Optimized project planning algorithms for Daptiv's proprietary system to manage timelines for various company projects.
Independent Contractor
Houston Things, LLC
- Directed end-to-end project delivery as sole developer, serving as architect, DBA, and project manager, successfully taking initiatives from conception to production.
- Created Android, iOS, and back-end codebases for Gratafy, a startup that delivered gifts for restaurants through Facebook.
- Created EatYourBooks, a book recipe catalogue for people to index their recipe books. Included faceted search (using Solr) and sharing with others.
Experience
SmartStubs
The solution we put together was written in C#.NET. It had a public-facing website, a REST API, and Windows Mobile apps. We presented a public and internal website for selling and managing ticket and bus inventory, as well as a REST API that handled the ticket and payment transactions, with storage in SQL Server.
The AI Team
https://github.com/jamie-houston/the-ai-teamSkills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Claude API, React, Vue
Tools
Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, GitHub, Claude, AI Prompts, Splunk, Android Jetpack, Microsoft Copilot, Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK
Languages
C#.NET, Kotlin, C#, JavaScript, Swift, TypeScript, GraphQL, Python
Frameworks
ASP.NET, .NET, AngularJS
Paradigms
Kanban
Platforms
Android, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Xamarin, iOS, Heroku
Storage
SQL Server 7, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB
Other
AI Tools, AI Agents, Salesforce Lightning, Coroutines, Software Architecture, AI-assisted Development, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), APIs, Cursor AI, Google Play Console, Bluetooth, Facebook, AI Enablement, Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Prompt Engineering, AI Programming, Claude Design
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