James Allen
Software Engineering Services at CHIEF SOLUTIONS LIMITED
High Peak, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJames Allen is a polyglot software engineer and managing director with over two decades of commercial experience and 13 years in hands-on engineering roles, currently delivering software engineering services for Transport for Greater Manchester. He specializes in building maintainable systems with SOLID principles and Clean practices across Node.js, C#, and Go, and has a track record in both web and client-server architectures. As founder of CHIEF SOLUTIONS LIMITED he combines consultancy breadth with senior engineering stints at companies like Truepill and BrightHR, often joining as a contract specialist to tackle complex integrations and legacy-modernization work. An analytical problem-solver, he contributes to open-source (notably enhancing KeystoneJS’s s3file handling and documentation), reflecting a focus on robustness and developer experience. Based in the High Peak, England, he brings practical cross-stack fluency and a knack for turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, well-tested systems.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 BSc, 2:1 BSc at The University of Huddersfield
English, c#, javascript, golang
Github Skills (6)
cms10
nodejs10
javascript10
keystonejs10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
keystonejs/keystone-classic
Jan 2014 - May 2014
Node.js CMS and web app framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 7 comments, 3 issues in 4 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to the KeystoneJS framework by adding functionality to the s3file field type, including support for allowed file types, and addressing related error handling. They also refactored the update handler code to address potential flash error issues and improve consistency. Additionally, the user updated documentation and fixed code style issues, improving the codebase's maintainability and user experience.
cmsnode-jsjavascriptnodejskeystonejs
Hewlett-Packard-ESS/joi-generate
Jul 2015 - Mar 2018
Generates sample data from Joi schema
Contributions:25 commits, 5 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 7 months
sample-dataschema-validationjoijoi-schemajson-schema
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