James Alfei
Software Engineer at Starling Bank
Gorseinon, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Alfei is a pragmatic software engineer with 10 years’ experience building and operating cloud-native Java microservices and serverless systems across finance and UK government services. Currently at Starling Bank, he previously led engineering and DevOps initiatives for HMRC (via Capgemini), DVLA and large enterprises, blending hands-on coding (Spring Boot, Kubernetes, AWS, Node.js) with platform-level CI/CD and reliability ownership. He’s known for driving engineering standards, tooling and cross-pod improvements—having acted as a Pod Lead and DevOps Champion overseeing multiple teams and mentoring engineers. James’s background spans legacy modernisation, high-availability public services and data-platform work, giving him a rare mix of product-facing and critical-infrastructure experience. Based in Gorseinon, Wales, he combines technical depth with people leadership and a habit of translating operational lessons into reusable tooling and processes.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computing, MEng Computing at Swansea University
English
Stackoverflow
45reputation
7kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (115)
firewall10
security10
fits10
command-line-tool10
cli10
mdm10
writers10
macos10
nodejs10
minima10
docker10
binaries10
homebrew10
administration10
jekyll10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jamesalfei/computer-science
Nov 2019 - Feb 2025
:mortar_board: Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!
Contributions:1 push in 5 years 3 months
cppsciencecomputer-sciencemortarself-taught
jamesalfei/monzo-pot-image-generator
Aug 2020 - Feb 2025
Generate Pot Images for Monzo
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 27 comments in 4 years 7 months
potmonzo
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