Ian James
Lead Developer at Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolIan James is a lead frontend developer with 12 years’ experience building accessible, high-performance web experiences for large public and nonprofit organisations. He has led major projects at GOV.UK—unifying navigation across half a million pages and shipping real user metrics—and delivered high-conversion fundraising sites at WWF-UK. Comfortable balancing progressive enhancement, privacy-first analytics, and strict accessibility (including IE11-era constraints), he moves confidently between hands-on implementation and technical leadership. Now based in Geelong, he combines public-sector scale experience with product-driven work in fintech and a background in biological imaging that informs his attention to visual detail and user-centred design.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Biological Photography and Imaging, Master’s Degree Biological Photography and Imaging at University of Nottingham
English
Github Skills (175)
origami10
datetime10
slack-bot10
pair-programming10
markdown10
puppet10
hotel-booking10
datepicker10
distribute10
date-formatting10
container10
momentjs10
publisher10
portal10
dayjs10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
injms/remark-frontmatter-linter
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
A Remark plugin that lints the frontmatter in a markdown file.
Contributions:5 releases, 48 PRs, 56 pushes in 10 months
injms/injms
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:37 commits, 7 pushes, 1 issue in 5 months
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