James Burgess
Managing Director - UAE at Elite Co.
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Burgess is a seasoned technology leader and current Managing Director in the UAE with a decade of experience scaling engineering organizations, modernizing architectures and driving DevOps/SRE maturity. He has a track record of transforming teams and platforms—growing engineering groups, introducing CI/CD, GraphQL API gateways, and rigorous SRE practices that dramatically reduced error rates and enabled 10x+ business transaction growth. A former CTO/CIO across logistics and freight tech, he blends hands-on full‑stack contributions (including fixes to the widely used Meteor JavaScript platform) with enterprise program delivery and Agile coaching. Trained at INSEAD with a BS in Mathematics, he also runs a data-driven engineering blog and produces Agile training content, reflecting a rare combination of operational leadership, developer craftsmanship, and public teaching.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Organizational Behavior and Blue Ocean Strategy, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Organizational Behavior and Blue Ocean Strategy at INSEADBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at University of Florida
English, Korean, French, German, Chinese
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
meteor10
testing9
build-system9
npm9
application-framework9
app-framework9
web-framework9
mongodb-database8
mongodb8
reactive-programming6
react6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
meteor/meteor
May 2017 - Apr 2020
Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 36 PRs, 135 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to the Meteor JavaScript App Platform by addressing issues related to the build system and internal behavior. Their commits include clarifying update messages for indirect dependencies, adjusting the minimongo behavior to match the server with selectors containing functions, and fixing test file matching patterns. Additionally, the user modernized and fixed the accounts-ui-viewer app and contributed to the modernization of several accounts-* packages by applying ES6 syntax and removing underscore dependencies.
app-platformmeteorjavascriptframeworktoolkit
jamesmillerburgess/customer-management
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:739 commits, 134 PRs, 544 pushes in 3 months
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