James Baxley
Vice President Of Engineering at Homeaglow
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Baxley is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling distributed product and infrastructure teams, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Homeaglow. He previously led global teams at Carbon Health and Apollo GraphQL, where he helped ship major initiatives like Apollo Client 3.0 and ported the Federation query planner to Rust/WASM, driving adoption by companies such as Netflix and NYT. James blends hands-on contributions to key open-source GraphQL projects (Apollo Server, Federation, fullstack tutorials) with strategic migrations to Next.js, serverless platforms, and React Native that delivered measurable performance and cost improvements. Known for growing diverse senior teams and championing communication practices, he pairs deep technical fluency in GraphQL and frontend architecture with strong people leadership and an architect’s attention to product-design tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Architecture - BArch Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture - BArch Architecture at Clemson University
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
back-end-development10
apollo-federation10
apollo-server10
wpgraphql10
apollo-client10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
query-engine10
nodejs10
querying10
protobuffer10
react10
protobuf10
testing9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/federation
May 2019 - Oct 2020
🌐 Build and scale a single data graph across multiple services with Apollo's federation gateway.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 148 commits, 60 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to the Apollo Federation repository by addressing issues related to schema composition and execution. Their work focused on enhancing the handling of abstract types within the federated gateway, particularly optimizing the selection of fields on interfaces and improving the overall query plan generation. Furthermore, the user implemented and refined functionalities for executable directives, ensuring compatibility and consistency across different federated services. These changes likely improved the performance and maintainability of the federated gateway, providing more efficient execution of GraphQL queries.
graph-datascaleapollo-federationgatewayfederation
apollographql/apollo-server
Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
🌍 Spec-compliant and production ready JavaScript GraphQL server that lets you develop in a schema-first way. Built for Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa, and more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 47 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancements and modifications related to the Apollo Engine reporting functionality within the Apollo Server codebase. Their work involved updating protobuf definitions, integrating client identity and schema awareness features, and refining the Engine reporting agent. They also addressed test failures related to schema branch names. The contributions indicate a focus on improving the performance and data collection aspects of the Apollo Server platform, specifically around telemetry.
production-readyexpresshapijsgraphql-serverproduction
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