James Bedford
Founder at Zerion
Marlborough, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJames Bedford is a software leader and founder with eight years of engineering and management experience, currently balancing an executive engineering role at Zerion with running his consultancy, Cultivate. He evolved from front-end engineer to senior engineering and group management roles at companies including Monzo, MoonPay and Zoa, bringing strong product-minded leadership to platform and UI teams. James contributes to open-source front-end projects—most notably UI improvements and editor/workflow features for collaborative data-notebook tooling—demonstrating a hands-on approach to UX and developer ergonomics. Based in Marlborough, UK, he pairs practical consulting and content creation with scaling engineering organizations, and uniquely draws on earlier nontech experience (horse breeding) that informs his pragmatic, long-term perspective on people and processes.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science English Language History Film, Computer Science English Language History Film at HSDC AltonFarnham Heath End School
Github Skills (8)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
html9
css9
git-repository8
github-repos8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
att/rcloud
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Collaborative data analysis and visualization
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 13 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the user interface of the application, focusing on the notebook merger and display of notebook information. They modified UI elements, including button and icon styles, and added functionality like copy-to-clipboard for notebook IDs. The changes involved JavaScript and modifications to files related to merging notebooks and displaying information. The user also made improvements to the editor, adjusting the layout and display of content within the editor.
data-analysisvisualization
DopestTech/Front-End-Bible
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
📖 Pure Front-End goodness
Contributions:63 commits, 9 PRs, 58 pushes in 8 months
frontend
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