James Baum
Technical Lead at Kaluza
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Baum is a Technical Lead based in Bristol with 12 years delivering full‑stack web and native applications, currently guiding engineering at Kaluza. He specialises in frontend JavaScript and React/ES6 while also shipping backend work in PHP and Python, and has built mobile apps and games across platforms. His portfolio includes work for major brands like Danone, Sky and Honda, and he brings hands‑on experience creating real‑time SPAs, embedded interfaces, and scalable web products. An active open‑source contributor, he improved navigation and local-serving behaviour in the Rust static site generator cobalt.rs, showing a knack for practical developer-experience fixes. Trained originally in Biological Sciences, he combines analytical curiosity with pragmatic engineering to turn complex requirements into maintainable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Biological Sciences, BSc Biological Sciences at The University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (18)
static-site-generation10
rust10
css9
liquid9
templating9
html9
testing8
dictionary6
android6
html-table6
android-layout6
jquery6
resize6
css-tables6
javascript6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cobalt-org/cobalt.rs
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Static site generator written in Rust
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 11 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `cobalt.rs` static site generator, focusing on features related to post management and local serving functionality. The user implemented "previous" and "next" post attributes, enabling navigation between posts, and allowed posts to be reverse sorted. Furthermore, the user addressed a bug by ignoring querystrings when serving files locally, improving the development experience. Several tests and configurations were also implemented, demonstrating the user's contribution to the overall project.
gitlab-cistatic-siterustsite-generatorcobalt
whostolemyhat/ascii-react
May 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:30 PRs, 115 pushes, 27 branches in 6 years 4 months
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