Gareth James
Engineering Manager at Babbel
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolGareth James is a seasoned engineering manager and former backend developer with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling high-traffic, low-latency web systems across international teams. Currently leading engineering at Babbel in Berlin, he combines hands-on expertise in Ruby/Rails, PHP, Python and C# with a strong track record in re-architecting data processing platforms and driving operational resilience. He has scaled teams from small squads to 20+ distributed engineers, champions Agile practices as a Certified Scrum Master, and pairs product-focused thinking with rigorous technical specifications. As a founder and CTO he launched multilingual consumer platforms and later co-founded a tech training initiative for refugee youth, reflecting an entrepreneurial mindset and commitment to social impact. Comfortable across the full stack and fluent in multiple languages, he brings rare depth on performance and data-at-scale problems (hundreds of billions of rows) while keeping product clarity front and center.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Music Technology, MSc, Music Technology at University of YorkB.Eng, Electronic Engineering, B.Eng, Electronic Engineering at The University of Sheffield
English, French, Spanish, German, Arabic
Stackoverflow
28reputation
123kreached
2answers
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Github Skills (48)
search-engine10
cybersecurity10
threat-intelligence10
contenteditable9
html-editor9
braintree9
wysiwyg9
recurring-events9
rich-text-editor9
text-editing9
medium9
recurring9
medium-editor9
api8
javascript8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
garethfr/openlibrary
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Ruby Interface for the OpenLibrary API
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 2 months
api-clientapirubyopenlibrary
garethfr/awesome-osint
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
:scream: A curated list of amazingly awesome OSINT
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
screamosint
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