James Billingham is a pragmatic Project Engineer with 13 years of experience and a strong track record delivering high-value engineering and manufacturing programmes across automotive, lighting and aerospace sectors. He combines hands-on technical skills with structured programme management—creating NPD processes, gateway events and master schedules while protecting cost, quality and timing. Known for clear stakeholder communication and building practical tools (from SAP trackers to low-cost production dashboards), he repeatedly drives cross-functional teams to meet tight delivery targets. James also contributes to open-source tooling for networking in a popular JSON modeling framework, reflecting a penchant for improving reliability at both product and software levels. Based in Wyre Forest, he brings a balanced blend of shop-floor problem solving and analytical project leadership.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Automotive Engineering - BEng (Hons) Automotive Engineering, Automotive Engineering - BEng (Hons) Automotive Engineering at Birmingham City University
Magical Data Modeling Framework for JSON - allows rapid creation of smart data models. You can use it in your iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 releases, 142 commits, 60 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on enhancing the networking capabilities of the JSONModel framework. Their contributions include adding new methods for making network requests, such as those accepting NSData directly, and correcting the transformation of URLs. The user also deprecated older networking methods in favor of newer, more robust approaches, while also improving the handling of NSNull objects. These changes improve the functionality and reliability of the library for network requests.
Contributions:1 release, 57 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years 1 month
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