James Brill
Data Scientist
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames 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.
14 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 StamfordMaster 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
nodejs10
speech-recognition10
javascript10
expressjs10
front-end-development10
react10
testing9
middleware9
seo8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JamesBrill/react-speech-recognition
Dec 2016 - Oct 2022
💬Speech recognition for your React app
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 17 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-recognitionspeech-to-text
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
Back-end DeveloperContributions: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.
javascriptmiddlewareprerenderingseo
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