James Clarke

Agile Coach at TSB Bank

Dacorum, England, United Kingdom
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James Clarke is an Agile Coach with 11 years’ experience helping financial services and consulting organisations (including PwC, Nationwide and TSB) translate lean and agile principles into measurable operational improvement. He combines strong stakeholder management and leadership with a hands-on background in data and reporting, having progressed from MI and analytics roles into ways-of-working and transformation coaching. James focuses on process optimisation, continuous improvement and customer-centric delivery, often balancing multiple high-profile engagements while driving consistency across teams. He also contributes to open-source database projects as a backend/database engineer, demonstrating a technical fluency that helps him bridge delivery practice and engineering concerns. Based in Dacorum, he’s known for being energetic, highly organised and pragmatic about bringing efficiency to complex systems.
code11 years of coding experience
job2 years of employment as a software developer
bookHertswood School Borehamwood
bookOakland's College St Albans Campus
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Github Skills (6)

edgedb10
postgresql10
database-design10
documentation9
eql9
relational-databases8

Programming languages (12)

TypeScriptC#JavaRustEdgeQLJavaScriptGoHTML

Github contributions (5)

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geldata/gel

Aug 2020 - Jan 2023

Gel supercharges Postgres with a modern data model, graph queries, Auth & AI solutions, and much more.
Role in this project:
userBack-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:99 reviews, 37 commits, 118 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to enhancing the EdgeDB codebase by adding detailed description annotations to standard library functions and constraints. These annotations improve code readability and provide better documentation. The commits also included refactoring imports and updating wire format documentation related to duration types, indicating a focus on database internals and documentation improvements. The user demonstrated a strong understanding of EdgeDB's internal structure.
rdbmsedgedbgraph-relationalormrelational
jaclarke/cronosjs

May 2019 - Jan 2022

A cron based task scheduler for node and the browser, with extended syntax and timezone support.
Contributions:10 releases, 47 commits, 41 pushes in 2 years 8 months
browserextendedschedulerrecurringtask-based
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James Clarke - Agile Coach at TSB Bank