Summary
James Blackburn is a senior full-stack engineer based in Hedge End, England, with over a decade of professional experience building and leading teams to deliver scalable .NET and web applications. He has progressed from hands-on roles developing CMS and commerce solutions with Episerver, Angular and C#, to engineering leadership at Elecosoft and his current senior engineering role at Quilter. Comfortable across the stack, his background spans Azure DevOps, Salesforce integrations, automated testing (SpecFlow/Selenium), CI/CD and messaging systems like NServiceBus, reflecting a pragmatic approach to reliable delivery. He pairs a games-development degree with practical enterprise experience, which helps him balance performance-minded engineering with user-focused design. Colleagues would also note his early responsibility for mentoring support teams and shipping production fixes under pressure, a detail that signals strong operational discipline beyond just feature work.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
IT A level D, Computing A level E, Graphics AS level C, Photography AS level C, IT A level D, Computing A level E, Graphics AS level C, Photography AS level C at ST Vincents College
GCSE, GCSE at Cams Hill
BSc (Hons) Computer Games Development, 2-1, 2-1, BSc (Hons) Computer Games Development, 2-1, 2-1 at Southampton Solent University
IT AS level D, Computing AS level E, Japanese Certificate PASS, IT AS level D, Computing AS level E, Japanese Certificate PASS at Havant College