James Anderson
Senior Software Engineer at Marks and Spencer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Anderson is a Senior Systems Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building performant web platforms, developer tooling, and language toolchains. He has driven front-end architecture and internationalisation strategy at Marks and Spencer, led caching and component-composition initiatives that improved mobile performance, and helped decommission legacy GraphQL services through cross-functional delivery. An active open-source contributor, he has improved build tooling for Cloudflare's popular next-on-pages project—adding Windows path fixes, route handler support, and esbuild minification—demonstrating a focus on build reliability and developer experience. Comfortable across the stack, he experiments with Solid.js, Go, and Zig, and has built scalable full‑stack systems that served millions of downloads, blending product-focused engineering with community-driven OSS practices.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science BSc, Computer Science BSc at Royal Holloway, University of LondonComputer Science, Economics, and Maths, Computer Science, Economics, and Maths at Heckmondwike Grammar School & Sixth Form
English
Github Skills (6)
cloudflare-pages10
javascript10
nextjs10
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/next-on-pages
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
CLI to build and develop Next.js apps for Cloudflare Pages
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:233 reviews, 19 commits, 82 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on bug fixes and feature enhancements related to the Cloudflare Pages integration with Next.js applications. They addressed issues with file path handling on Windows, improved the handling of external fetch requests, and added support for route handlers. Furthermore, the user implemented utility functions for path normalization and introduced esbuild minification, indicating a focus on improving build processes and overall functionality. They also made multiple small fixes, including a typo fix and a code comment, further demonstrating their commitment to code quality.
cloudflare-pagesnextjs
james-elicx/blog
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:15 PRs, 49 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 7 months
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