James Almond
Software Engineering Team Lead at Beam
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Almond is a seasoned software engineering leader with 15 years' experience building full-stack and AI-driven products from startup prototypes to multi-hundredfold growth. Currently leading an AI product team at Beam, he combines hands-on engineering with team-building—managing high-performing squads, launching two AI products, and driving a WCAG 2.2 frontend redesign. He has deep Ruby on Rails and React experience, a track record of integrating payments, analytics and data warehousing, and a penchant for simple, testable, maintainable systems. James regularly mentors engineers, champions testing and product analytics, and has run a local developer community as Sheffield Ruby User Group organiser for over a decade. Practical and user-focused, he pairs technical craft with product trio collaboration to turn complex operational needs into reliable, scalable tools.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
1st, Computer Science BSc, 1st, Computer Science BSc at The University of Sheffield
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Github Skills (64)
energy10
rails10
ruby10
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payment-gateway9
payment-integration9
square9
payment9
payment-processing9
adyen9
spree8
backend8
abstraction8
capistrano8
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shruggers/shruggers.github.com
Apr 2011 - Jul 2015
Contributions:146 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 3 months
coopdigital/communities-assemble
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:30 PRs, 30 pushes, 14 branches in 7 days
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