James Thomason, Jr. dev

James Thomason, Jr.

Software engineer building developer tools and human + agent systems.

My work centers on developer interfaces, agent workflows and orchestration, context systems, guardrails, and reliable execution — the parts of agentic software that decide whether it can be trusted with real work.

I'm currently building Stations.dev as an independent founding engineer, alongside open-source tooling for agentic software.

Current Work

Stations.dev

In active development Founding Engineer

Executable workflows for humans + agents.

Stations is an agent-native work execution platform where humans and agents work through the same structured processes, with explicit actors, artifacts, gates, dependencies, and approvals.

  • Actors
  • Artifacts
  • Gates
  • Dependencies
  • Approvals

About

I've spent my career building full-stack products, developer platforms, infrastructure, and tools. More recently, my work has moved toward agentic software — not only using AI to build software, but building the systems around agents that make them more useful to developers and teams.

Trajectory

Current Aug 2026 — Present
Founding Engineer (Independent), Stations.dev — Building an agent-native work execution platform for humans and autonomous agents.
Previous Jun 2022 — Aug 2026
Software Development Engineer II, Amazon — Built AI workflow platforms, experimentation systems, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling.

Core engineering philosophy: Strip friction away from cognitive work. Reliable engineering systems aren't built through opaque autonomous magic; they need explicit state, clear boundaries, observable behavior, and good ergonomics so humans and agents can work together effectively.

Technical Profile

Focus
Developer Tooling · Agent Systems · Platform Engineering · Distributed Systems · Full-Stack Architecture
Languages & Runtimes
TypeScript · Node.js · Python · Go · Java
Platforms
AWS · Kubernetes · PostgreSQL · Docker · OpenTofu / Terraform · GitHub Actions
Agent Systems
Multi-Agent Systems · Human-in-the-Loop · MCP · Bedrock · RAG
Current
Stations.dev · Supersuit · Agent Skills · Fleet · Vic

Outside Software

I'm a dad, gamer, homebrewer, and habitual tinkerer. Most of my side projects begin because I want a tool that doesn't quite exist yet.