James Cattell
Design Led Engagement Specialist at The Pensions Regulator
Staffordshire Moorlands, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Cattell is a design-led engagement specialist with three decades of experience split across public and private sectors and a 12-year recent track record focused on digital, data and technology delivery. He blends community building, user-centred research and delivery leadership—having run national unconferences, led cross-government engagement teams and managed large dataset and digital delivery programmes. At organisations from GDS and the Cabinet Office to DWP, Defra and the MoJ he’s combined agile coaching, facilitation and stakeholder engagement to ship high-impact public services. He also volunteers as an organiser and treasurer for prominent government tech communities (OneTeamGov, UKGovCamp), seeding grassroots meetups that scaled internationally. Comfortable moving between hands-on community design and senior delivery roles, he brings a pragmatic, research-informed approach to improving how people interact with government technology. Based in Staffordshire Moorlands, he pairs technical roots in computer science with a rare knack for turning events and meetups into lasting, service-improving networks.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer and Information Sciences, General at University of Wales, Aberystwyth
French, magyar, Catalan, English, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
service-design9
security7
android7
privacy6
voting5
slack-bot5
slack3
attestation3
management3
democracy3
ckan-extension2
html2
member2
ckan2
open-source1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jacattell/acronyms
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
List of abbreviations used within the MoJ, and their definitions
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 year 8 months
mojdefinitionsabbreviations
ministryofjustice/acronyms
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
List of abbreviations used within the MoJ, and their definitions.
Contributions:19 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 8 months
mojdefinitionsabbreviations
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