James Cole
Technical Lead at WorkSteps.io
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Cole is a technical lead and entrepreneur with over 20 years of software development experience, currently driving transport and IoT projects from Melbourne. He co-founded multiple startups—GeoToko (acquired by Hootsuite) and inoutput.io—and now leads Timpany, delivering embedded systems, AVM OS porting and onboard integrations for major transit clients like Yarra Trams. Comfortable across stacks, James pairs solution architecture with hands-on Python microservices, C#/.NET, PHP frameworks, SQL and devops, and has a particular passion for Linux, home automation and building hardware. An active local tech community figure and hackathon winner, he’s also been a go-to technical voice for CBC and ABC, blending entrepreneurship with practical delivery on complex, real-world systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Network Computing(BNetComp), Distributed Applications Engineering, Software Engineering, Network Engineering, Bachelor of Network Computing(BNetComp), Distributed Applications Engineering, Software Engineering, Network Engineering at Monash University
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Github Skills (47)
python10
mqtt10
internet-of-things10
garden10
asyncio10
iot10
automation10
privacy10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
rest9
backbonejs9
codeigniter9
visjs8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jamespcole/home-assistant
Mar 2015 - Apr 2019
Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3
Contributions:184 pushes, 20 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 1 month
raspberry-pipythonmqtthome-automationpython-3
jamespcole/leapmotion-dbus
Jan 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 4 pushes in 11 months
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