James Baxter
Engineering Manager at Splice
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Baxter is an engineering manager and former staff engineer with a decade of experience building acclaimed iOS music apps and audio engineering products from concept to App Store front-page features. Trained as a physicist (first-class MSci), he blends scientific rigor with practical software leadership across sectors including audio, finance, and publishing, often tackling the hardest technical problems and mentoring teams in TDD, CI/CD and clean design. He led development of multi-million-download apps like Launchpad, Groovebox and Blocs Wave, and has shipped embedded firmware, desktop plugins and real-time audio features. Known for bringing design sensibility to engineering, he pairs UX-driven product thinking with low-level systems work and a keen interest in music and sound that informs his technical choices. Based in London, he currently leads engineering at Splice after a stint as Staff Engineer at Spitfire Audio, combining hands-on coding with team development and product strategy.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
A-Level Physics (A) Chemistry (A) Maths (A) Further Maths (A), A-Level Physics (A) Chemistry (A) Maths (A) Further Maths (A) at Royal Grammar School, High WycombeMSci Physics with Industrial Experience Physics, MSci Physics with Industrial Experience Physics at University of Bristol
Japanese, English
Github Skills (34)
command-line-tool8
cli8
administration8
binaries7
homebrew7
macos7
swift6
contentful6
rating6
sdk6
pushwoosh5
testing5
javascript4
crash-dump4
api4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
FocusriteGroup/countly-sdk-ios
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
Countly Product Analytics iOS SDK with macOS, watchOS and tvOS support.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 4 months
analyticsios-sdkmaccatalystappletvtvos
tehpsy/BocoSolver
Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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