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.
10 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
Originating from the Quote - "Onions have layers" - onion_file_search uses a layered Ttk Treeview to search for files
Contributions:2 releases, 37 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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James Blackburn - Senior Software Engineer at Quilter