James Almond
Senior Software Engineer at Octopus Energy
Horwich, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Almond is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building customer-facing web products across retail and automotive tech, currently contributing at Octopus Energy. He combines a front-end pedigree honed at Auto Trader and AO with pragmatic product-squad delivery, thriving in agile teams to turn design and business requirements into polished, performant interfaces. Comfortable across the stack, James has progressed from web design to senior engineering roles, bringing visual design sensibilities from his Digital Media background into engineering decisions. Colleagues describe him as self-motivated and positive, with a focus on adding measurable value rather than just shipping features. Based in Horwich, England, he blends creative roots in art and digital media with ten years of hands-on product engineering. James often leans on user-centered thinking to bridge the gap between design intent and scalable implementation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Media, Digital Media at The University of SalfordArt & Design, Art & Design at Blackburn CollegePleckgate High School
English
Github Skills (13)
focus7
preload7
lazy-loading6
trap6
image5
react5
css3
progressive3
threshold1
raise1
coverage1
jest-coverage1
testing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AORetail/css
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 6 months
cssapproachscssscss-css
jamestalmond/build-boilerplate
Aug 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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