James Arnott
Founder & Security Researcher at Bay Area Labs
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Arnott is a founder and security researcher with nine years of hands-on software experience, currently leading "Am I Being Pwned" from Stony Stratford. He excels at building high-performance, sharded data systems and developer tooling—having driven migrations from Firestore, optimized monorepos and build caches, and managed MemSQL/Singlestore deployments. James has repeatedly shipped agentic AI features that multiply developer output and built seemingly impossible UIs and automated platforms from a single command. His background spans full-stack product rebuilds, real-time notification systems at scale, and embedded IoT displays, revealing a practical curiosity for diverse technical domains. Notably, he pairs startup grit with rapid iteration habits (and a few production mishaps he fixed fast), showing resilience and a bias toward shipping. He holds a Computer Science degree from Royal Holloway and brings entrepreneurial instincts from founding multiple projects and early-stage engineering roles.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of LondonBHASVICShoreham Academy
Github Skills (59)
tinder10
sqlite10
browser-extension10
tensorflowjs10
spotify-api10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
pear10
sdk10
vscode10
plasmo10
code-editor10
parcel10
mysql9
postgresql9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Acorn221/Arnott.tech
Jul 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 207 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 9 months
Acorn221/Cards-Against-Humanity
Mar 2021 - Jan 2024
a-lelvel project
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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