James Bell
Head Of Development at The Data City
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Bell is a results-driven Head of Development with 14 years of experience delivering web and e-commerce solutions across agencies and data-focused businesses, now leading development at The Data City. He blends hands-on expertise in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, AWS/Azure and Magento with UI skills in Photoshop, XD and Illustrator to bridge technical and design teams. Known for clear communication and collaborative leadership, he has progressed from web developer to senior development lead roles at Bloom Agency and Jaywing. Based in Leeds, he stays current with emerging web technologies and brings a pragmatic, customer-focused approach to building maintainable, scalable systems. An understated strength is his comfort operating both as an individual contributor and as a people-focused manager who prioritises listening and practical mentorship.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
HND, HND at Wakefield CollegeBTEC National Diploma, BTEC National Diploma at Leeds College Of Technology
Github Skills (150)
cloudflare-api10
api10
cloudflare10
php10
fuzzy-search9
magento9
laravel9
serverless-plugin9
pipenv9
clustering9
ecommerce9
full-text-search9
text-search9
database8
dotnet8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jamesryanbell/cloudflare
Aug 2014 - Oct 2017
CloudFlare API - PHP
Contributions:31 releases, 153 commits, 35 PRs in 3 years 2 months
cloudflare-apiphpcloudflareapicloudflare-php-api
jamesryanbell/node-wraith
Feb 2014 - Jun 2016
A responsive screenshot comparison tool. Based on the Ruby version available at (http://github.com/BBC-News/wraith)
Contributions:31 commits, 6 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 3 months
ruby
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