James Allardice
Board Member at Mindstep
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Allardice is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 11 years’ experience building scalable JavaScript-first systems and teams. As CTO and Board Member at Mindstep he architected a serverless, event-driven platform that now supports 100,000+ users and met MHRA requirements for UKCA medical device classification. He co-founded Orange Jellyfish, a consultancy trusted by enterprises like The Economist, UBS and giffgaff, and has repeatedly hired and grown engineering teams from the ground up. A hands-on engineer and international speaker, he enjoys working with React, React Native, Serverless and modern JS tooling while maintaining and contributing to open-source projects. Based in St Albans, he combines product-focused technical leadership with a practical track record of shipping mobile and web apps that scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Higher Education Computer Science, Certificate of Higher Education Computer Science at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (149)
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google-maps10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mammaldev/kudu
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
An opinionated boilerplate for Express web apps
Contributions:105 commits, 3 PRs, 87 pushes in 6 months
boilerplateexpressjsexpressweb-appsnodejs
jamesallardice/jslint-error-explanations
Sep 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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