James Abley
Director at Eternus Digital Solutions Ltd
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJames Abley is a seasoned technology director with 16 years of experience building and operating large-scale digital platforms across government, retail, and startups. He combines deep technical hands-on skills — from platform migrations and infrastructure-as-code to front-end improvements — with strong people and culture leadership, coaching teams and scaling practices. At MOO he delivered measurable business impact through cost controls, SLO-driven reliability improvements and incident culture changes that drove seven-figure gains and a fourfold reduction in incidents. He’s led cloud migrations, observability and data strategies for clients, and contributed to the high-profile GOV.UK service design manual as a full-stack developer focused on quality and build automation. Preferring multidisciplinary, co-located teams informed by user research, James blends pragmatic engineering with a long view on sustainable operational change.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
French, German
Stackoverflow
2,222reputation
667kreached
25answers
13questions
spring
top-5%
Github Skills (16)
markdown10
go10
markdown-it10
build-automation9
spring9
jekyll9
link-checking9
html8
css7
safari6
monitoring6
javascript6
google-chrome6
parsing6
metric6
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
alphagov/government-service-design-manual
Feb 2013 - Mar 2016
Government Service Design Manual
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:626 commits, 37 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Government Service Design Manual, focusing on front-end and content-related tasks. Their work included fixing compilation issues, branding updates, and incorporating new content and links within the manual's structure. Furthermore, the user implemented markdown linting and improved the build process, indicating a focus on quality assurance and automated checks.
manualgovernmentservice-design
jabley/jamesabley.com
Jan 2016 - Jan 2022
Content for https://jamesabley.com
Contributions:28 PRs, 66 pushes, 30 branches in 6 years
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