James Beith
Staff Software Engineer at Glued to Music
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Beith is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable web and energy tech systems, currently shaping transformational products at Kraken within the Octopus Energy Group. He combines deep backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used Django REST Framework around relational field display values and template UX fixes—with a track record of shipping scalable services at Octopus Energy and Realmac. A pragmatic technical leader and hands-on engineer, he also brings entrepreneurial grit as co-founder of Glued to Music, shipping guitar and luthier supplies globally. Based in Sydney, he blends open-source sensibility with product-focused delivery and a background in web applications development from the University of Plymouth.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Web Applications Development, BSc (Hons) Web Applications Development at University of Plymouth
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Github Skills (22)
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pytest10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
testing10
xcode10
xib10
rest-api10
objective-c9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
encode/django-rest-framework
Aug 2015 - Nov 2016
Web APIs for Django. 🎸
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the Django REST Framework by implementing and testing features related to the display value of model instances within relational fields. They added a `display_value` method and corresponding tests. Additionally, the user addressed a template syntax error in a checkbox template and added autofocus support to input templates. These contributions suggest a focus on enhancing the framework's functionality and improving the user experience.
apipythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangoweb-apis
octoenergy/django-elasticache
May 2022 - Nov 2024
pylibmc based client for Amazon ElastiCache with auto discovery function
Contributions:1 review, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
pythondjangoamazonelasticacheamazon-elasticache
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