James Ayers
Tech Lead at Octave
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Ayers is a seasoned tech lead based in Wellington with over 12 years of formal experience and more than two decades of hands-on development, blending deep front-end and back-end expertise across SilverStripe, PHP, React, Vue, SASS and MySQL. He has a strong track record of architecting and delivering award-winning websites and apps, including leading a team to build a suite of ReactJS and SilverStripe tools for a government agency. Comfortable moving between solution architecture, technical governance and mentoring, he excels in fast-paced, collaborative environments and ramps teams up quickly. His background in product development and design management gives him an unusual cross-disciplinary lens, enabling pragmatic, user-focused technical decisions. Currently serving as Tech Lead at Octave after five years as Tech Director at DNA Design, he combines strategic leadership with hands-on coding and scoping skills. Outside of role titles, he consistently turns complex requirements into deliverable, maintainable systems that exceed client expectations.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Diploma of Design Management, Design Management, A, Post Graduate Diploma of Design Management, Design Management, A at Unitec New ZealandBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Product Development, A, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Product Development, A at Massey University
Github Skills (182)
silverstripe10
omnipay10
grav-plugin10
internal-links10
identifier10
guid10
api9
cms9
range-picker9
dataobject9
forms9
php9
rad9
mvc-framework9
form-builder9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dnadesign/silverstripe-patternlab
Jan 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years
patternsilverstripehandlingsilverstripe-module
dnadesign/silverstripe-ubiquity
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
Integrate data with https://www.qrious.co.nz/products/ubiquity
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 4 months
integrateubiquity
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