James Collerton
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Collerton is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building high-traffic, cloud-native systems across media and music industries, currently working on User Platform at Spotify. He combines a strong academic foundation—a First in Mathematics and a Distinction MSc in Computer Science—with hands-on expertise in Java, GCP, AWS, microservices, DevOps and security. At the BBC he led moderation and proposed ML/AI automation, and previously gained domain knowledge of the music business at Kobalt. A certified Professional Scrum Master and Android publisher (FlashApp), he blends product-minded engineering with team leadership and operational rigor. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture and scalability work that bridges data, backend services and deployment. Living in London, he quietly pairs mathematical thinking with production-grade software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science (BSc), Mathematics, First (1), Bachelors of Science (BSc), Mathematics, First (1) at University of Bristol
English, Chinese, French
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Github Skills (21)
ajax9
jquery9
latex9
windows-shell7
custom-validators6
sql6
markup6
validation6
python6
testng6
bean-validation6
java6
javascript6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JamesCollerton/Art_Photography_Website
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
JamesCollerton/Advent_Of_Code
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:168 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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