James Seconde
Developer Advocate
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJames Seconde is a Senior Developer Advocate at Vonage (Ericsson) with 9 years of software engineering and developer-relations experience, specialising in PHP and communications APIs. He pairs hands-on backend engineering—refactoring and modernising the vonage-php-sdk core for SMS, voice and 2FA, removing legacy code and improving PHP compatibility—with public-facing work as a speaker, writer and meetup host. Founder of brumPHP and co-organiser of the Fusion Meetup in Birmingham, he has led community initiatives and coordinated regional tech programmes. His background in theatre and acting gives him a distinctive talent for technical storytelling and engaging developer audiences, and he balances that public role with family life as a husband and dad.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
api-doc10
sms-messages10
php10
voice10
api10
messaging10
sms10
testing9
phpunit9
phpunit109
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Vonage/vonage-php-sdk-core
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Vonage REST API client for PHP. API support for SMS, Voice, Text-to-Speech, Numbers, Verify (2FA) and more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 releases, 65 reviews, 161 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:James focused on refactoring and improving the core PHP SDK, specifically related to SMS messaging and voice communication. They addressed deprecations, removed legacy code, and updated the code to be more compatible with modern PHP versions. Furthermore, the user also made changes related to handling block numbers, number prefixes, and the addition of a pay NCCO.
sms-messagesdeveloper-destinationnexmovoice-to-textserver-sdk
SecondeJK/j24-giphy
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
Everyone's favourite entertainment API
Contributions:10 PRs, 37 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
apientertainmentnodejsfavouriterest-api
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