James Brooks
Lead Developer at Good Dog Design
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJames Brooks is a Lead Developer based in Adelaide with 17 years' experience building secure, scalable web and mobile applications, primarily using Ruby on Rails and React Native. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering—from PostgreSQL tuning and Linux server administration to Docker-based deployments and polished front-end implementations—with a strong emphasis on web and infrastructure security. At Good Dog Design he leads multidisciplinary projects that blend visual design and engineering, turning prototypes into production-grade systems. His specialty in GraphQL and JSON:API complements deep familiarity with ES6 JavaScript and containerized architectures, enabling efficient API-driven products. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, James often bridges the gap between designers and ops, ensuring applications are both usable and robust under load.
18 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B. CS Hons, Computer Science, B. CS Hons, Computer Science at University of Adelaide
English
Stackoverflow
658reputation
47kreached
33answers
0questions
Github Skills (97)
jitsi10
mvc10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
command-pattern10
debian10
service-object10
html10
rails10
webrtc10
activemodel10
jitsi-meet10
git-repository9
decorators9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jamesbrooks/blog.jamesbrooks.net
Sep 2021 - Feb 2026
A minimal, sidebar, responsive web design Jekyll theme that focuses on text presentation.
Contributions:56 pushes in 4 years 5 months
presentationsidebarweb-designresponsive-sidebarjekyll
jamesbrooks/server-status
Mar 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 5 years 7 months
golangcommand-line-toolhostvitalfetching
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.