James Collier
Software Engineer at Facebook
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Collier is a software engineer with 11 years' experience building scalable, production-grade systems for major consumer platforms from the BBC and Disney+ to Facebook. He’s worked across the full stack—authoring RESTful services, real-time event processing pipelines, and front-end interfaces—while applying functional programming and CI/CD best practices to improve reliability and delivery velocity. At Disney Streaming he led efforts to process millions of playback events in real time to surface actionable product insights, and at the BBC he introduced load-testing, Docker, and AWS automation to harden services used by iPlayer. Now based in London and contributing projects via his portfolio (slakah.github.io), he blends pragmatic engineering with a physics-trained analytical mindset from a BSc in Theoretical Physics. Peers describe him as someone who routinely brings tooling and process improvements that reduce complexity behind the scenes while keeping user experience front of mind.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Theoretical Physics, BSc, Theoretical Physics at University of YorkNorth Doncaster Technology College
Github Skills (127)
continuation10
mill10
effects10
maven10
scala-cli10
cats-effect10
scala-native10
async10
dynamodb10
sbt10
raii10
monix10
scala10
gitlab10
bitbucket10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Slakah/gubbns
Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 52 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 2 months
Slakah/slakah.github.io
Dec 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:105 PRs, 258 pushes, 58 branches in 5 years 4 months
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