James Brill - Data Scientist

James Brill

Data Scientist

London, England, United Kingdom

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Summary

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Senior

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James Brill is a versatile data scientist and software engineer with 13 years’ experience building full-stack systems for startups and large tech firms, now applying neural networks to rank flight itineraries at Skyscanner. He pairs backend and frontend fluency (React, Node, Java) with production data science, having pivoted from senior engineering work on mobile web and identity services into ML-driven search ranking. An active open-source maintainer, James built the react-speech-recognition library and contributed pragmatic enhancements to prerender middleware, demonstrating attention to cross-browser UX and robust server-side control. He holds an MEng in Computer Science from Warwick and brings a customer-focused mindset—evident in his game Feedwater and frequent community engagement—so he solves technical challenges with product sensibility.

13 years of coding experience

8 years of employment as a software developer

High School, A-levels, A*AA, High School, A-levels, A*AA at New College Stamford

Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 1.1, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, 1.1 at University of Warwick

Github Skills (10)

speech-to-text10

javascript10

speech-recognition10

nodejs10

expressjs10

front-end-development10

react10

testing9

middleware9

seo8

Programming languages (2)

TypeScriptJavaScript

Github contributions (5)

JamesBrill/react-speech-recognition

Dec 2016 - Oct 2022

💬Speech recognition for your React app

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:26 releases, 12 reviews, 324 commits in 5 years 10 months

Contributions summary:James primarily focused on developing a speech recognition component for a React application. They implemented features such as recognizing specific languages and supporting multi-word entities. Key contributions included refactoring the component into a Higher-Order Component (HOC) and improving its state management and control, including the ability to start and stop listening. The user's work also involved migrating the codebase and adjusting component structure for reusability.

reactspeech-to-textrecognitionspeech-recognitionreactjs

prerender/prerender-node

Apr 2022 - Apr 2022

Express middleware for prerendering javascript-rendered pages on the fly for SEO

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR in 1 day

Contributions summary:James primarily focused on modifying the `prerender-node` middleware to allow for cancellation of prerendering actions. They implemented a feature allowing `afterRender` functions to signal the cancellation of a prerender, improving control over the prerendering process. Their contributions included adding new test cases to verify the cancellation functionality and modifying the core logic in `index.js` to incorporate the cancellation mechanism. These changes enhanced the flexibility and control offered by the middleware.

prerenderprerenderingjavascriptexpresson-the-fly

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