James Bunt
Frontend Staff Engineer at Canva
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJames Bunt is a Frontend Staff Engineer based in Auckland with 18 years of experience building rich web applications and leading frontend teams at companies like Canva and Vend. He specializes in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 and has deep historical expertise with YUI, enabling pragmatic migrations and durable UI architecture. James has progressed from hands-on frontend developer to lead and staff roles, pairing delivery ownership with mentoring and cross-team collaboration. He also contributes to open-source projects beyond the web UI space—working on core tools in scientific software such as Avogadro—demonstrating comfort with both UI polish and lower-level algorithmic work.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering at University of Waikato
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data-structure7
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cryos/avogadro
Aug 2007 - Oct 2007
Avogadro 1 is not under active development, the repository was archived in September 2021. Development of Avogadro 2 is being done at https://github.com/openchemistry/avogadrolibs. Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the `bondcentrictool.cpp` file, which appears to be a tool within the Avogadro molecular editor. Their work focused on enhancing the tool's functionality, specifically introducing and improving features related to dihedral angle manipulation and bond angle adjustments. These changes involved the addition of new procedures, improved undo capabilities, and modifications to the drawing and interaction logic within the tool's interface, indicating a focus on the application's core functionality.
openchemistrychemistrysciencemolecularbioinformatics
unkillbob/generator-babel-standard
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Yeoman generator for simple node modules with babel transpiling and code style with feross/standard
Contributions:57 commits, 18 PRs, 45 pushes in 27 days
code-stylebabelnode-modulestranspilingyeoman
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