James Bassett
Senior Software Engineer at Askable
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Bassett is a Senior Software Engineer based in Brisbane with 14 years of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and platform infrastructure across fintech, aviation, and SaaS. He focuses on making developers more productive—whether by upgrading JVM stacks, implementing OpenTelemetry, creating shared docker-compose environments, or automating dependency updates with Renovate. Comfortable across Kotlin, Java, Scala, TypeScript and cloud-native tooling, he has led migrations (monix to ZIO, Ant to Maven) and modernised CI/CD, Ansible and Terraform workflows. James pairs hands-on coding with leadership roles in Backend and Build guilds, and has a long history of improving developer experience from internal SWAT teams to platform squads. An early open-source maintainer of Super CSV, he brings a practical appreciation for sustainable OSS and for refactoring legacy projects to modern build systems. He holds a first-class Honours degree in Information Technology and consistently blends pragmatic engineering with infrastructure-level thinking.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours 1st Class), Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours 1st Class) at Griffith UniversitySQIT - Roma College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
kotlin10
hashmap10
java10
javas10
maven10
csv10
refactoring10
unit-testing9
parsing9
junit9
floating-point9
eclipse6
supercsv6
primefaces6
jsf6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
super-csv/super-csv
Nov 2011 - Aug 2015
A fast, programmer-friendly, free CSV library for Java
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 140 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:James's commits indicate a focus on refactoring and migrating the Java-based CSV library from Apache Ant to Maven. This involved restructuring the project directory, adding a pom.xml file, and resolving dependencies. The user also removed a dependency on a third-party library and refactored the code to incorporate the functionality, and fixed a broken test class.
csvjava
consoleau/kassava
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
This library provides some useful kotlin extension functions for implementing toString(), hashCode() and equals() without all of the boilerplate.
Contributions:9 releases, 13 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 1 month
hashcodekotlin-extensionstostringkotlinboilerplate
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