Chris James
Founder at Zapid Hire
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolChris James is a founder and hands-on engineering leader with 11+ years designing production-grade systems that automate and augment finance and operations for enterprises. He builds the Synesai Engine — an AI-focused data processing harness — and works directly with clients to deliver custom integrations for month-end close, multi-entity consolidation and compliance reporting that standard ERPs can't handle. His background spans distributed architectures, orchestration and cost-conscious infrastructure choices (self-hosted k3s, Pulumi, DigitalOcean) and he routinely deploys durable orchestration (Temporal) and autonomous agents for edge-case automation. Past roles at Immutable, Atlassian and multiple startups show a track record of performance tuning, security-first design and scaling high-throughput pipelines for multimedia and blockchain-adjacent systems. Colocated in Sydney, he combines founder-level product judgment with deep implementation chops and a practical focus on where automation should end and human judgement should begin.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (122)
firefox-addon10
google-tag-manager10
stitch10
browser-extension10
chrome-extension10
safari-extension10
javascript9
graphql-tools9
wrench9
blockchain9
typescript9
vue9
graphql-schema9
lightroom9
graphql-js9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cajames/vue-tag-manager
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Simple Google Tag Manager implementation for Vue
Contributions:54 commits, 9 PRs, 22 pushes in 11 months
google-tag-managertag-managerheadvuevuejs
cajames/vsco-keys
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
VSCO Keys for Adobe Lightroom Classic
Contributions:5 releases, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 5 months
adobeextendscriptvscodekeyslightroom
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