James Bloomer
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
South Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Bloomer is a seasoned software engineering manager with over 25 years in development, architecture and team leadership, currently leading engineering at Meta in London. He blends deep technical craftsmanship—illustrated by meaningful backend contributions to the popular Ghost publishing platform around robust image handling—with a strong track record of building and scaling technology teams as CTO and Head of Technology at Kudos Innovations. James emphasizes continuous improvement in processes and people, fostering cultures that raise technical standards and delivery quality. His background in physics (BSc and PhD) gives him a rigorous, analytical approach to complex systems and problem solving. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, he has repeatedly modernized systems and delivery practices across startups and large organisations. Based in South Oxfordshire, he pairs academic depth with practical, production-focused execution.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc. Hons Physics, Bsc. Hons Physics at University of SouthamptonPhD Particle Physics, PhD Particle Physics at University of Birmingham
Stackoverflow
5,252reputation
2.1mreached
35answers
7questions
sql-server
top-1%
Github Skills (20)
filesystem10
javascript10
file-management10
expressjs10
image-processing10
sql-server10
nodejs10
tsql9
testing9
blogpost8
publish8
microblogging8
cms8
wcf6
wcf-ria-services6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TryGhost/Ghost
Sep 2013 - Nov 2013
Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Ghost publishing platform. Their work focused on image handling, including file uploads, storage, and validation. Key changes included refactoring the file system storage module, enhancing the image upload process with MIME type validation, and resolving related issues. The contributions improved the reliability and efficiency of the image upload process.
cmsmembershipspublishingnewslettersjavascript
jamesbloomer/vim
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
neovimconfigvimvim-config
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